Author: Eliassen, Finn-Einar ; Mikkelsen, Jørgen ; & Poulsen, Bjørn ; editors:
Title: Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia
Description: Odense [Denmark], Odense University Press, (2001). orig.wrappers. 25x17cm, 272 pp.. Textual maps.. ISBN: 8778386586. Minor rubbing. Inscribed by editor on half-title. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: Historical regions & regional history in the Nordic countries; The nature of states & regions: Reflections on territory in Swedish historiography; Regions & regional history in Norway; Middlemen of the regions: Danish peasant shipping from the Middle Ages to c. 1650; Trade from Southern East Bothnia from 1560 to c. 1600: An analysis of responses to economic stress; Ploughing burghers & trading peasants: The meeting betweeen the European urban economy & Sweden in the 1 6th and 17th centuries; Vestfold & Telemark: Two regions in South-Eastern Norway in the 17th &18th centuries; Population development & economic reorganization of Southern Helgeland, 1660-1700; Fairs as periodical regional centres in Denmark, 1600-1900; Merchant trade & fairs in Zealand, ca. 1750-1810; Making a regional system work: The Norway trade of Niels Hasselbalch & other merchants of Randers, 1761-67; Aalborg as a regional centre, 1400-1814; Port towns, privileges & changing fortunes: Mandal & its hinterland ca. - 1650-1850; In the shadow of the town: Counter-culture & market economy in Northern & Middle Hordaland in the 18th century; Civilizing the wilderness: The social & agricultural transformation of West Jutland, 1750-1850.

Keywords: 8778386586 Scandinavian Historiography, Economic History, Historical, Geography, Regional, Regionalism, Regions, Scandinavia, Denmark Norway, Sweden