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<mailto:hanna.enefalk@kau.se>, och jag har också gjort en
facebooksida där alla som vill kan följa arbetet, länk nedan:
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559651562931>
Önskar er alla en fin sommar!
Hanna Enefalk
Hanna Enefalk
Lektor i historia vid Karlstads universitet
Hanna Enefalk | Karlstads universitet
(kau.se)<https://www.kau.se/forskare/hanna-enefalk>
Handbook of Swedish History (Routledge, planerad publicering våren 2028)
Utkast till kapitelindelning
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.
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