Bringing the People Back In

Knut Dørum is a Professor of History at the University of Agder and at the University of Bergen in Norway. His recent research interests touch upon political and social history from below in the period c. 1750–2018. He has published extensively nationally and internationally on urban history, political culture, democratisation, state building, and female entrepreneurship.Mats Hallenberg is a Professor of History at Stockholm University. He has studied political conflicts over public services in Stockholm, as well as state formation and peasant protest in early modern Sweden and Finland. He is currently working on a comparative study of regime shifts c. 1500–1800 and their long-time effects on Swedish politics.Kimmo Katajala is a Professor of History at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland. The main topics in his publications are social disturbances, history of borders, cartography, and state building in the early modern period. In his ongoing projects, he is studying the history in cartography and historical memory.

• PART IBringing the people back in 11 Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500–1800 3KNUT DØRUM, MATS HALLENBERG & KIMMO KATAJALA2 The historical sociology of politics as the study of people, power, and agency 23MICHAEL BRADDICKPART IIThe war, riots, and protests 373 The ethics of rule and the pragmatics of resistance 39MALTE GRIESSE AND MIRIAM RÖNNQVIST4 Conflict, state formation and literacy 61MAGNE NJÅSTAD5 Statebreaking from below 76SARI NAUMAN6 Pride of the communes 91MARTIN NEUDING SKOOG7 Insurgents of the Oldenburg state in Torstenson war 1643–1645 107OLLI BÄCKSTRÖMPART IIIBringing order to the state from below 1258 Households and state-building in early modern Denmark 127NINA JAVETTE KOEFOED9 Policing the guilds 146JØRGEN MÜHRMANN-LUND10 How soldiers’ women built early modern states 162MARTIN ANDERSSONPART IVElites in state formation 18111 From state elite to regional elite 183ERIK OPSAHL12 An improvised empire 199KAARLE WIRTA13 The state conquers a feudal enclave 215JOAKIM SCHERPPART VFormation of the public sphere in the 18th century 23114 From subjects to rural citizens? 233ELLA VIITANIEMI15 Houses divided? 252TROND BJERKÅS16 Local space building as state building? 274JENNI MEROVUO17 Contested customs 292MAGNUS LINNARSSON18 Criticism of government in Norway c. 1770–1814 309KNUT DØRUMPART VIState building from below in perspective 32719 The people and the state 329MARJOLEIN ’t HART