The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650-1780

by Maria Ågren and Maria Ågren

We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation was subsidized by ordinary people's work and how, at the same time, the changing relationship between state authorities and families shaped the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526100649
• ISBN13: 9781526100641
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"