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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 112 uppsatser innehållade ordet virtues.
1. Skådepenningar i enväldets tjänst: Ekonomisk och politisk legitimitet i Gustav III:s kungliga medaljer 1772–1792
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologiSammanfattning : This bachelor’s thesis in Historical Archaeology concerns how the royal medals of the Swedish King Gustav III (1756-1792) functioned as a means of political propaganda, namely in what ways an official legitimizing narrative was created about the country’s economy and the role of the King herein, through the images and texts of the royal medals. Inspired by Clifford Geertz’ anthropological perspective on authority it views the royal medal as a means of communication and as a branch of a greater “master fiction” that monarchy created around itself. LÄS MER
2. "I am the opposite of progress” – A discussion about Bauman’s Liquid Modernity through the lens of Yellowstone
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskapSammanfattning : Purpose: The purpose is to problematize how to use conservatism as counterforce to Liquid Modernity by answering two research questions. - What critique against liquid modernity can be identified in Yellowstone? - How does Yellowstone articulate conservatism as counterforce against monetary interests and profit. LÄS MER
3. Voices Once Lost : on Connexions in nineteenth century Swedish Geaticism
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis studies how the early nineteenth century periodical Iduna, published by the influential Geatish Society from 1811 until 1844, portrayed and shaped their idea of Sweden’s past. Of particular interest to this thesis is how this past was narrated through the use of emotions and how these emotions functioned. LÄS MER
4. Saviours : The opinionated and dangerous students at Uppsala university in 1793
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis sets out to investigate the students at Uppsala university’s self-image and the image that they had of the Swedish population at the start of the 1790s. During this time the Swedish state was fearful of the Swedish students and their political opinions due to, amongst several reasons, the involvement of French students during the French revolution. LÄS MER
5. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. LÄS MER
