Dienstag, 08. März 2022, 18:00 - 19:30 iCal

Göran Rydén (Uppsala):

"Was there a Swedish Sattelzeit? Steel, Technology and Progress"

Seminarraum Geschichte 1, Hauptgebäude, 1. Stock, Stiege 10
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Vortrag


Moderation: Erich Landsteiner

 

Eighteenth-century Sweden was a small country at the European fringes. The iron industry was the main link to global markets and developments, with Swedish iron supplying industrialising Britain. In the second half of the century, this gradually changed, with signs of both material and institutional modifications. It was an approaching modernity, with technological improvement, a market economy and even ideas of progress, but the intellectual understanding of the process was hardly one of change. Instead, contemporaries used the concept of Hushållning to describe Sweden as a static society; change was nowhere to be seen. Towards the end of the century, however, a new approach was in the making, and I will talk about how ideas of an unchanging society gradually gave way for one in which progress was not only visible and achievable, but also desirable. My talk will be framed by the bounds of Swedish iron and steel making, inserted in a global setting, and circle around three interrelated aspects, a free market, technology, and ideas about industrial development and progress.


Veranstalter

Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte


Kontakt

Barbara Szymon
Erich Landsteiner/Juliane Schiel/ Maria Stella Chiaruttini
Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
4277 41303
barbara.szymon@univie.ac.at