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Persson, M. (2020). Det villrådiga samhället: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens politiska och ekonomiska ideologi, 1739–1792 (1ed.). Nordic Academic Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Det villrådiga samhället: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens politiska och ekonomiska ideologi, 1739–1792
2020 (Swedish)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Det villrådiga samhället belyser Vetenskapsakademiens politiska och ekonomiska synsätt under perioden 1739–1792 mot bakgrund av organisationens täta förbindelser med samhällsledningen – inte minst det under frihetstiden framträdande hattpartiet och den autokratiske Gustav III. Boken ger vid handen att akademien överlag hade en slagsida åt det traditionella och att ledamöternas föreställningar om samhället var påtagligt färgade av kopplingarna till makten. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nordic Academic Press, 2020. p. 345 Edition: 1
Keywords
1700-tal, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, Carl von Linné, frihetstiden, Gustav III
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Research subject
History of Sciences and Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-495752 (URN)10.21525/kriterium.27/ (DOI)9789188909442 (ISBN)978-91-88909-54-1 (ISBN)
Funder
The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation
Available from: 2023-02-01 Created: 2023-02-01 Last updated: 2023-04-26Bibliographically approved
Hodacs, H. & Persson, M. (2019). Globalizing the savage: From stadial theory to a theory of luxury in late-18th-century Swedish discussions of Africa. History of the Human Sciences, 32(4), 100-114
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Globalizing the savage: From stadial theory to a theory of luxury in late-18th-century Swedish discussions of Africa
2019 (English)In: History of the Human Sciences, ISSN 0952-6951, E-ISSN 1461-720X, Vol. 32, no 4, p. 100-114Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines the effects of globalization on changing notions of the 'savage'. We compare discussions taking place in different contexts in the late 18th century concerning two Swedish scholars and travellers to Africa: Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), a naturalist and Linnaean disciple, and Carl Bernhard Wadstrom (1746-99), an engineer and economist. Both moved in Swedish Swedenborgian circles, and both became involved in the British abolitionist movement. Nevertheless, their images of African 'Others' diverged in crucial respects, reflecting differences in their ideological outlooks, institutional affiliations, and understandings of how the world was changing. More specifically, we argue that the perception of global change brought about by a new economic framework of production and consumption provides a key for reading and comparing Wadstrom's and Sparrman's texts. Comparing their divergent uses of 'savagery', the article also highlights the versatility of the savage as a tool for presenting distant parts of the world to a domestic audience.

Keywords
civilization, globalization, savage, Sparrman, Wadstrom
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-396135 (URN)10.1177/0952695119836590 (DOI)000477221900001 ()
Available from: 2019-11-08 Created: 2019-11-08 Last updated: 2021-08-23Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2019). Sanning och lydnad: Carl Christoffer Gjörwell som gustaviansk propagandist. Lychnos, 2018, 156-176
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sanning och lydnad: Carl Christoffer Gjörwell som gustaviansk propagandist
2019 (Swedish)In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, Vol. 2018, p. 156-176Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The publicist Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (1731–1811) was an important figure in the Swedish eighteenth-century public sphere. Besides collecting and disseminating news, he served as a propagandist for first the ruling Hat Party, then King Gustav III (1746–1792). This article highlights Gjörwell’s double function as publicist and propagandist by investigating how he represented Gustav III at the beginning and at the end of the ever-more autocratic monarch’s reign; more specifically, the renderings of Gustav’s coup d’état (1772) and the war against Russia (1788–1790). On a more general level, the analysis explores an oft-neglected facet of the early modern public sphere, namely the presence of the powers that be in the expansive media landscape. In so doing, the study contributes to the ongoing revision of Jürgen Habermas’ thesis about an autonomous and oppositional public sphere, which has rightfully been criticised for not recognizing the substantial role played by the state.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, 2019
Keywords
Carl Christoffer Gjörwell, Gustav III, offentlighet, propaganda
National Category
History History of Ideas
Research subject
History of Sciences and Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-368656 (URN)
Available from: 2018-12-06 Created: 2018-12-06 Last updated: 2023-11-01Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2019). Southern Darkness, Northern Light: "Civilisation" and "Savagery" in Anders Sparrman's Southern African Travelogue. South African Historical Journal, 71(1), 1-20
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Southern Darkness, Northern Light: "Civilisation" and "Savagery" in Anders Sparrman's Southern African Travelogue
2019 (English)In: South African Historical Journal, ISSN 0258-2473, E-ISSN 1726-1686, Vol. 71, no 1, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article interrogates how the entangled concepts of civilisation and savagery were envisioned and brought into play in the globetrotting Linnaean disciple Anders Sparrman’s (1748–1820) southern African travel account, how far and along which lines the dichotomy between them was tempered and challenged, and to what extent exposure to a foreign continent encouraged critical and destabilising introspection. The analysis deals with his representations of the inhabitants of Africa in the form of colonists, slaves, and Khoisan, as well as with his renderings of the Europeans. The investigation sheds further light on the erudite construction and employment of ‘civilisation’ and ‘savagery’ at the threshold between early modern and modern. It also provides a fresh take on Sparrman himself, while addressing the scholarly debate on his human-related conceptions and proposing a new approach to them.

Keywords
Anders Sparrman, savagery, civilisation, travel writing, Cape colony, Khoisan, slavery, Carolus Linnaeus, eighteenth century, Anders Sparrman, Carl von Linné, Sydafrika, reseberättelse
National Category
History of Ideas
Research subject
History of Sciences and Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-401777 (URN)10.1080/02582473.2019.1600000 (DOI)2-s2.0-85066477582 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-01-08 Created: 2020-01-08 Last updated: 2022-12-06Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2018). The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710 [Review]. European history quarterly, 48(3), 562-564
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710
2018 (English)In: European history quarterly, ISSN 0265-6914, E-ISSN 1461-7110, Vol. 48, no 3, p. 562-564Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2018
National Category
History Economic History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-366671 (URN)10.1177/0265691418783617j (DOI)000438568600022 ()
Available from: 2018-11-27 Created: 2018-11-27 Last updated: 2018-11-27Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2017). Review of: The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, vol 2, 1520-1870 [Review]. European history quarterly, 47(4), 756-758
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Review of: The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, vol 2, 1520-1870
2017 (English)In: European history quarterly, ISSN 0265-6914, E-ISSN 1461-7110, Vol. 47, no 4, p. 756-758Article, book review (Other academic) Published
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-346543 (URN)10.1177/0265691417729639aa (DOI)000411820500036 ()
Available from: 2018-03-21 Created: 2018-03-21 Last updated: 2018-03-21Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2015). Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World: Provincial Cosmopolitans [Review]. European history quarterly, 45(4), 792-794
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World: Provincial Cosmopolitans
2015 (English)In: European history quarterly, ISSN 0265-6914, E-ISSN 1461-7110, Vol. 45, no 4, p. 792-794Article, book review (Other academic) Published
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-267492 (URN)10.1177/0265691415607130z (DOI)000362728600036 ()
Available from: 2015-12-14 Created: 2015-11-24 Last updated: 2017-12-01Bibliographically approved
Berndtsson, T., Mattsson, A., Persson, M., Sundin, V. & Skuncke, M.-C. (Eds.). (2015). Traces of Transnational Relations in the Eighteenth Century. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Traces of Transnational Relations in the Eighteenth Century
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2015 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Contents:

Introduction - Mathias Persson and Annie Mattsson

Carrot and Stick: The Nordic Foreign Policy of Sir Robert Walpole - Phillip Sargeant

Competition and Cooperation: Swedish Consuls in North Africa andSweden’s Position in the World, 1791–1802 - Fredrik Kämpe

Communities, Limits and the Ability to Cross Borders: Two Swedes’Experiences in Constantinople during the Eighteenth Century - Karin Berner

Johan Leven Ekelund – Equerry, Traveller and Writer - Anna Backman

The Roast Charade: Travelling Recipes and their Alteration in the LongEighteenth Century - Helga Müllneritsch

Bringing Into the Light, or Increasing Darkness With Darkness: Jacob Wilde’s Rewriting of Samuel Pufendorf’s Account of Swedish Ancient History - Tim Berndtsson

L’Amour Raisonnable: Précieuse Perspectives on Love –Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and the French Seventeenth-Century Salon - Vera Sundin

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2015. p. 184
Series
Uppsala Studies in History of Ideas, ISSN 1653-5197 ; 47
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-252775 (URN)978-91-554-9265-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-05-12 Created: 2015-05-12 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2015). Transferring Propaganda: Gustavian Politics in Two Göttingen Journals, 1776–1793 (1ed.). In: Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding & Mona Ringvej (Ed.), Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change: Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment (pp. 93-112). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Transferring Propaganda: Gustavian Politics in Two Göttingen Journals, 1776–1793
2015 (English)In: Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change: Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment / [ed] Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding & Mona Ringvej, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015, 1, p. 93-112Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015 Edition: 1
Series
Library of the Written Word, ISSN 1874-4834 ; 42
National Category
Humanities
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-270891 (URN)9789004290051 (ISBN)9789004293113 (ISBN)
Available from: 2016-01-04 Created: 2016-01-04 Last updated: 2017-05-12Bibliographically approved
Persson, M. (2014). Hopes and Fears for the Future in Early Modern Sweden, 1500-1800 [Review]. European history quarterly, 44(1), 153-155
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hopes and Fears for the Future in Early Modern Sweden, 1500-1800
2014 (English)In: European history quarterly, ISSN 0265-6914, E-ISSN 1461-7110, Vol. 44, no 1, p. 153-155Article, book review (Other academic) Published
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-229389 (URN)10.1177/0265691413515408w (DOI)000337975300030 ()
Available from: 2014-08-06 Created: 2014-08-06 Last updated: 2017-12-05Bibliographically approved
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