Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800

Summary, in English

Sweden's connections to and relationships with the European and wider world is a field of study attracting considerable scholarly attention. The essays here, from archaeologists and historians, offer a new perspective on early modern Sweden as deeply affected by the increasing internationality of the 16th-18th centuries. Set in the socio-political context of an expanding and changing kingdom, they deal with the character and impact of a wide range of cultural encounters - at home, in the colonies and during overseas travel. They consider how new fashions, commodities and ideologies were perceived and appropriated, and they discuss how these encounters shaped the discourses of the familiar and the foreign - from curiosity, acceptance and appreciation, to prejudice, rejection and conflict. In taking a broad and interdisciplinary approach, and by departing from traditional themes of political history, the volume as a whole offers a different view of the kingdom, its people, and its involvement with the outside world.

• Editor: Magdalena Naum; Fredrik Ekengren
• Department/s: Historical Archaeology; Archaeology
• Publishing year: 2018
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph
• Volume: 10
• Document type: Book
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Topic: History and Archaeology; Archaeology
• Keywords: History; Archaeology; Native American Studies; Historical Archaeology; Early Modern History; Colonial America; Colonialism; 17th and 18th century Sweden; Colonial Studies; New Sweden; Cultural contacts; Sweden; Forest Finns; Lenape
• Status: Published
• Project: Sweden in the Delaware valley. Everyday life and identities in the seventeenth century colony of New Sweden
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1740-4924; ISBN: 9781787442139; ISBN: 9781783272945