A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; JPFN; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The State as Master. Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650-1780.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1526100649
ISBN 13: 9781526100641
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation was subsidized by ordinary people's work and how, at the same time, the changing relationship between state authorities and families shaped the understanding of work and gender. This book is both a fascinating story of the hardships of customs official families in small Swedish towns and an innovative analysis of state formation and its short- and long-term effects.

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Maria �gren is Professor of History at Uppsala University, Sweden

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