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This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites
in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social,
political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The
elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power
over people. Power over agrarian production was essential to the
elites during this period, although mobile capital was becoming
increasingly important. The book focuses on the material resources
of the elites, through questions such as: Which types of resources
were at play? How did the elites acquire and exchange resources?
This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites
in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social,
political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The
elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power
over people. Power over agrarian production was essential to the
elites during this period, although mobile capital was becoming
increasingly important. The book focuses on the material resources
of the elites, through questions such as: Which types of resources
were at play? How did the elites acquire and exchange resources?
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 behaviour,
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 heterogeneous body of recent and ongoing research in regional
history provides the foundation and raison d'etre of the present
volume. The editors 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. We decided to concentrate on the
early modern period, in a wide sense, ranging from the fifteenth to
the mid-nineteenth century. This is both the period which seems to
be best covered by research and publications, and, even more
important, it is a crucial period in the integration of the Nordic
regions into wider economic, cultural and political units and
networks nationally and internationally: the nation-state, the
modern world economy, even civilisation itself!
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