Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia

by Jorgen Middelsen, Bjorn Poulsen, Finn Eliassen

Overview

In the Nordic countries, regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time. The differences in voting behavior, language, religious views, social structure and attitudes between districts, regions, and provinces within each country are often striking. In addition to these internal regions, there are also greater, transnational regions, cutting across state and national boundaries, and incorporating parts of several present-day states. The editors of this book have brought together a number of the most active and experienced practitioners in this field, inviting them to present some of the most interesting results from their own research and readings in regional history, in a form accessible also to a non-Nordic readership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788778386588
Publisher:	University Press of Southern Denmark
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Historical regions and regional history in the Nordic countries. An introduction	7
Chapter 2	The nature of states and regions. Reflections on territory in Swedish historiography	14
Chapter 3	Regions and regional history in Norway	41
Chapter 4	Middlemen of the regions. Danish peasant shipping from the Middle Ages to c. 1650	56
Chapter 5	Trade from Southern East Bothnia from 1560 to c. 1600. An analysis of responses to economic stress	80
Chapter 6	Ploughing burghers and trading peasants. The meeting between the European urban economy and Sweden in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	95
Chapter 7	Vestfold and Telemark. Two regions in South-Eastern Norway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	106
Chapter 8	Population development and economic reorganization of Southern Helgeland, 1660-1700	122
Chapter 9	Fairs as periodical regional centres in Denmark, 1600-1900	140
Chapter 10	Merchant trade and fairs in Zealand, c. 1750-1810. A study in market economy	162
Chapter 11	Making a regional system work. The Norway trade of Niels Hasselbalch and the other merchants of Randers, 1761-67	186
Chapter 12	Aalborg as a regional centre, 1400-1814	213
Chapter 13	Port towns, privileges, and changing fortunes. Mandal and its hinterland, c. 1650-1850	232
Chapter 14	In the shadow of the town. Counter-culture and market economy in Northern and Middle Hordaland in the eighteenth century	247
Chapter 15	Civilizing the wilderness. The social and agricultural transformation of West Jutland, 1750-1850	263
	List of contributors	287

Editorial Reviews

Regionalism within and across state boundaries has been a strong factor in the development of the Nordic countries of Europe. In this anthology of 14 essays, contributors focus on a range of approaches and research interests related to theoretical and methodological issues of regional history. The time-span covered by the articles ranges from the 15th century to the mid-nineteenth century, roughly covering the emergence of a European economic integration to the breakdown of regions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Specific topics include Danish peasant shipping in the Middle Ages, the impact of urban economies, population development and economic reorganization, and the growth of port towns. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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