Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems, but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances created obstacles to communication
Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area in
Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water – and how water has shaped both material culture and the ima
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies
This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The
