Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden

Magdalena Naum, Fredrik Ekengren

A new view of Sweden's relations with the world beyond its borders, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

Introduction: Material Transformations - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenTracing Other in 17th Century Sweden - Christina Rosén and Per CornellHouses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar - Göran TagessonIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Anna-Kaisa SalmiIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Annemari TranbergIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Risto NurmiBrewing an Ethnic Identity: Local and Foreign Beer Brewing Traditions in 15th- to 17th-Century Sweden, an example from Nya Lödöse - Jens HeimdahlTactile Relations: Material Entanglement between Sweden and Its Colonies - Jonas M. NordinIntroduction: Migration and Neighbourly Interactions - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenMarrying "the Other": Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Eastern Borderlands of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th Century - Kimmo KatajalaIdeas from Abroad: German Weavers as Agents of Large-Scale Cloth Production and a Continental Lifestyle in 17th-Century Sweden - Claes B. PetterssonForeign Merchants in Early Modern Sweden: A Case of Intermarriage, Trade and Migration - Christina DalhedeAspects of "British" Migration to Sweden in the 17th Century - Adam GrimshawCommodities, Consumption and Forest Finns in Central Sweden - Magnus ElfwendahlEncountering "the Other" in the North - Colonial Histories in Early Modern Northern Sweden - Carl-Gösta OjalaLapland's Taxation as a Reflection of "Otherness" in the Swedish Realm in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Colonialism or a Priority Right of the Sámi People? - Matti EnbuskeIntroduction: Overseas Travel - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren". How It Would Be to Walk On the New World With the Feet From the Old": Facing Otherness in Colonial America - Magdalena NaumInscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638-1655 - Fredrik EkengrenMen You Can Trust? Intercultural Trust and Masculinity in the Eyes of Swedes in 18th-Century Canton - Lisa HellmanThe Barbary Coast and Ottoman Slavery in Swedish Early Modern Imagination - Joachim OstlundA World of Distinctions: Pehr Löfling and the Meaning of Difference - Kenneth NybergEncountering Some Others and Not Others - Lu Ann De Cunzo