Hej kollegor!

Jag vill gärna informera om att Routledge ligger i startgroparna med en ”Handbook of Swedish History”, tänkt publikation våren 2028 digitalt och i pappersform. Redaktör är undertecknad och jag har precis börjat fundera kring upplägg och enrollerat de första skribenterna.

Jag har plats för ett fyrtiotal texter – det blir en tegelsten – som ska skildra ”state of the art” inom olika teman och kronologiska perioder. Jag skickar med ett väldigt preliminärt upplägg (se bifogad fil eller inklistrad text nedanför mejlet).

Jag tar gärna emot tips, synpunkter, och inte minst intresseanmälningar om att vara med och skriva! Det går bra att höra av sig till mig på hanna.enefalk@kau.se, och jag har också gjort en facebooksida där alla som vill kan följa arbetet, länk nedan:

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Hanna Enefalk

Lektor i historia vid Karlstads universitet

Hanna Enefalk | Karlstads universitet (kau.se)

Handbook of Swedish History (Routledge, planerad publicering våren 2028)

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I. From Iron Age Society to Medieval Kingdom, 900–1500

The Vikings (an overview of research about late Iron age economy, society and religion, including slavery, shipbuilding, international contacts and life ”at home” in Scandinavia)
Christianization and state formation
The consolidation of the Swedish realm, the expansion into Norrland and Finland, codification of law and building of royal fortresses
Trade and towns: the Hanseatic league, the kogg, trade on the Baltic, fairs, exports-imports and local markets
The calamitous 14th century
The Kalmar union and the rebellions of the 15th century
The medieval church, the formation of the parishes (socknarna), the veneration of saints, the role of women in medieval Swedish Christianity

II. Early Modern Sweden, 1500–1800

The beginnings of the early modern state: the break-up of the Kalmar Union and the reformation under the reigns of Gustav Vasa to Karl IX
The society of estates and the Lutheran orthodoxy (norms, world view, church documentation of the population, Bible translations, moral control and witch processes, agency and negotiation, widows as heads of households)
From the 30 years war to the Great Northern war: Expansion of state power, military build-up and aggression, territorial conquest, the reduction and indelningsverket, the collapse of the Swedish great power
Waterways, fisheries and water power: the Baltic herring fisheries, fishing (in the north not to forget), naval technology (chronological outlooks beyond the early modern period)
Finland as part of the Swedish realm
Colonial aspirations and attempts to take part in international trade (New Sweden, the East India company, St Barthelemy, chronological outlooks)
”Age of Freedom” and Gustavian absolutism (the legal code of 1734, Swedish scientists, changes in the countryside, emerging public sphere)
Gender and work in early modern Sweden

III. A Growing Population in a Small State, 1800–1900

Sweden and the Napoleonic wars (political history)
From a society of estates to a class society
Agrarian reform and change
Pauperization, crofters and poor relief (legislation and practice)
The national project from Gustav III to the interwar period; national ”others” (minorities and foreign powers), Scandinavianism
Sami and tornedalingar. State power, natural resources, discrimination and legislation in the north
Secularisation – the evangelical revival, increasing religious freedom, the secularisation of the school system, the ”divorce” in 2000
Women’s rights. Legislation, unmarried mothers and infanticide, Fredrika Bremer, the moral crisis (syphilis and prostitution), the Women’s movement for voting rights, the Fogelsta group
The emigration and Swedish Americans
The demographic transition

Forestry and forest use (medieval times–today): grazing, tar and coal production, timber, pulp

IV. A Modern Democracy, 1900–2020

The emergence of civil society: from associations to people’s movements; IOGT/NTO, sports clubs, cooperations
The industrial revolution – energy use, innovation, capital, social and environmental consequences
Socialism in Sweden. The Workers’ movement, labour unions, voting rights, the democratic break-through, the ”people’s home” and the welfare state
The agrarian sector: urbanisation and rationalisation, technological change (fertilizers and tractors)
Animal history (chronological overview). Iron age fur trade, reindeer herding, hunting, animal stock over time, war horses, vermin, extinction of predators, emerging animal protection, modern high-yield breeds
Social history: demographic change and increasing living standards. From hunger riots in 1917 to the ”record years” and world-leading BNP/capita after WWII
Medicine in the 20th century (incl. psychiatry)
The interwar period (political history). The Saltsjöbad agreement, the lack of Nazi success in elections.
Sweden and the Holocaust (Karin Kvist Geverts, ev. med Izabela Dahl)
Sweden and WWII: Political leadership, neutrality, Finnish aid, Swedish exports to belligerents
20th-century international contacts and diplomacy (secular in the UN etc + Christian ecumenical development)
Children’s rights – Ellen Key, the transition to small nuclear families, legislation against violence in schools and in the home, plunging child mortality
The gay and queer history of Sweden
Gender equality and labour market after WWII – baby boom, 50s stay-at-home wives and early marriages, family planning and abortion, 60s–70s tax-financed childcare and individual taxation etc. The gender-divided labour market
Recent history. The end of the cold war, the 90s economic crisis, the IT revolution, environmental concerns, immigration, populism, covid, NATO...

V. Thematic chapters

School systems and education history (Johannes Westberg)
Art and literature – overview of relevant questions in current historical research in Arts and Literature?
Historical research in Musicology?
Swedish historiography from Rudbeck to Weibull and over to today’s orientation towards British and American historians.