This essay deals with Swedish unemployment politics during the period 1918-1932, and can be seen as a contribution to earlier research of how the policies, established by the State Unemployment Commission, was carried out at a local level. This study bears upon  Uddevalla municipality, a town in the southwestern part of Sweden, which had about 13,700 inhabitants in 1920.The research was conducted in Uddevalla municipality archives, and the sources used are above all municipal records and documents from the local unemployment committee. The measures taken by the local committee to reduce the effects of unemployment have then been compared with the directives of the State Unemployment Commission.The survey shows that the local unemployment committee, at least during the first half of the 1920s, was very keen to follow the directives of the State Unemployment Commission, and they also tried to charge the municipality's economy as little as possible. The local policy was often even more restrictive than the demands from the State Unemployment Commission. During a few years in the middle of the 1920s, when the unemployment was relatively low, most of the unemployed did not recieve any help at all.The restrictive policy, however, led to an increasing distress among the unemployed, and the poor relief had to give financial help to a lot of unemployed and their families.

Abstract:The old established description gunboat diplomacy has in modern time changed to a broader and more nuanced definition called maritime diplomacy. But what is maritime diplomacy and how is it described? This essay analyses the theories from the Englishman James Cable and the American Edward Luttwak. Both Cable and Luttwak represent nations which have a global security interests and deploy their maritime forces worldwide. The foundation for their theories is power politics.

I have in this essay looked at what stand NWT took to the three leading countries in The First World War, Germany, France and England, and if it changed during the course of the war.I worked based on the theory that NWT, as a politically conservative newspaper was pro-Germany, which also showed to be true.I have look at the official stand, what is shown in the published material, what stand that the newspaper showed outwards. The result shows that NWT held a neutral stand during the war being loyal to the conservative government. At the end of the war the papers sympathies for Germany are shown more openly in its political material..

This paper examines how the ideal of manhood is portrayed and constructed and how the participation of Swedish soldier volunteers are motivated and legitimatized. The purpose of this examination is to gain understanding and knowledge about the Swedish soldiers in the Swedish brigade, how they legitimatize and motivate their participation and how the ideal of manhood is portrayed and constructed. The study is based on material from the war archive in Stockholm. The empirical material is composed by letters and propaganda material. In the analysis of the empirical study, there have been two theories used which are Eric Hobsbawms historical method and theory about invented traditions and Peter Aronssons historical method and theory about ?historiebruk? and legitimacy.

Syftet med detta arbete har varit att studera Spanska sjukan i norra Sverige, samt försöka ta reda pÄ om regeringen fört en livsmedelspolitik under första vÀrldskriget som gjorde att mÀnniskor led av undernÀring, eventuellt svalt. Var det verkligen sÄ att mÀnniskor svalt, kunde detta i sÄ fall ha varit en avgörande faktor till att Spanska sjukan blev sÄ förödande? Jag har i min studie undersökt tre orter nÀrmare: PiteÄ, Arjeplog och SkellefteÄ och hur dessa drabbades av Spanskan mellan Ären 1918- 1920. Genom att analysera dessa orter nÀrmare har jag försökt att ta reda pÄ hur de drabbades och vilka faktorer som haft störst inverkan pÄ Spanskans spridning. NÀr det gÀller regeringens livsmedelspolitik har jag försökt ta reda pÄ vilka konsekvenser den fick.

The political and civil unrest during the last years of the First World War had a profound impact on the political life in many European countries. Academic research on the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the development of the parliamentary system during these years, often focus on the civil unrest and the mobilization of the labour movement during the spring of 1917, and the impact on Swedish politics of the Russian and German revolutions.This study is an examination of the relation between the Swedish labour movement and the Finnish Civil War of 1918. The general aim of the study is to examine how different levels and organisations of the labour movement acted in regards to the situation in Finland, and how these different levels and organisations interacted with one another. A second aim of this examination is to better understand during what kind of processes of the Swedish labour movement?s history that the Finnish Civil War occurred, and how it affected them.The conclusion of the study is that the there was a disparity between the leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SAP), which at the time was part of the Swedish government together with the liberal party, and the grassroots of the labour movement, organized in trade unions, and in the local organizations of the SAP and the Social Democratic Left Party (SSV).

Abstract Hot mot journalister Àr inget nytt fenomen. DÀremot Àr debatten kring denna problematik mer aktuell Àn nÄgonsin. Samtidigt rÄder det en viss brist pÄ vetenskapliga undersökningar, som gÄr pÄ djupet vad gÀller enskilda journalister och deras erfarenheter av hot. Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna uppsats Àr dÀrför att utforska Ätta journalisters upplevelser i samband med sÄdana. Utöver detta kommer jag dessutom att analysera hotupplevelserna utifrÄn journalistikens uppgifter enligt olika demokratimodeller. Mina teoretiska verktyg bestÄr vid sidan av teorier rörande olika demokratimodeller och deras syn pÄ journalistik av kÀnslo- och problemfokuserade copingstrategier mot vilka jag kommenterar journalisternas upplevelser.

Jag har i denna uppsats gjort en kvalitativ analys av strids- och vÄldskildringarna i Hallandsposten frÄn första vÀrldskrigets vÀstfront. UtgÄngspunkten har varit en teorimodell som delar in materialet i kategorier som spÀnner frÄn de krigsromantiska skildringarna i början av kriget till det mer realistiska under krigets senare Är. Resultatet av undersökningen Àr att det sker en förÀndring av det publicerade materialet under krigets lopp. Denna förÀndring visar sig i att det förekommer allt mindre krigsromantiska skildringar ju lÀngre kriget fortskrider. DÀremot sÄ ökar de mer realistiska skildringarna och dessa blir allt mer nÀrgÄngna i sin karaktÀr och kan mot slutet av kriget ses som fördömande..

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the occurrence of Scandinavia in the then daily English newspaper Yorkshire Herald during the First World War. The dissertation looks into what the Yorkshire Herald wrote about Scandinavia in the parts of the newspaper where the newspaperÂŽs own opinion was given. This approach is connected to the theoretical idea that the British local and regional press was politically free during the war period. The dissertation also looks into the number of news telegrams etcetera that concerned Scandinavia during the period.The result shows that Scandinavia, both as a whole as well as the three individual countries, was mentioned about 700 times, split over about 600 telegrams and articles, during the examined period stretching from the first of August 1914 to the eleventh of November 1918. Material that gives the newspaperÂŽs opinion regarding issues concerning Scandinavia can be found six times during the period.

Uppsatsen behandlar konstnÀren John Bauer (1882-1918) och dennes konst, sett utifrÄn religionsfilosofen Mircea Eliades (1907-1986) vÀrldsbild. Verken som behandlas Àr Titta pÄ dem, sade trollmor. Titta pÄ mina söner! Vackrare troll finns inte pÄ denna sidan mÄnen, (1915), och Tyr och Fenrer, (1911).Uppsatsens syfte Àr att tolka och diskutera dessa utifrÄn Eliades teorier och begrepp. Uppsatsen gÄr igenom tidigare litteratur om Bauer, och analyserar denna, samt definierar de teorier och begrepp hos Eliade som Àr relevanta för tolkningen..

This study examines four short stories- ?Gudarnes like?, ?VÀnner?, ?Lolo? and ?Kvinnor? - in a novel called UpptÀckter written by Ulla Bjerne in 1918. My aim has been to study whether Bjerne in these stories writes from a New Woman- position. The New Woman novel as a genre flourished around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. I have also studied whether Bjerne in these short stories uses a melodramatic style.

I dagens moderna samha?lle finns syntetiska kemikalier i princip o?verallt. De kan tas upp av ma?nniskor pa? olika sa?tt, till exempel genom inandning, upptag genom huden och genom mat. Barn och unga a?r mer ka?nsliga fo?r kemikalier a?n vuxna, bland annat eftersom hja?rnan, immun- och hormonsystemet inte a?r fa?rdigutvecklade.

The purpose of this essay was to analyze the collapse of democracy in the Weimar Republic. This was done by analyzing some of the most turbulent crises in its history like the communists attempt to take power in 1919, the kapp-putsch of 1920, hyperinflation 1923 and the economic depression 1929-1933. The method that I used in this essay is called methodological individualism. It was an analytical framework which helped to understand the citizens view on democracy and legitimacy. The theoretical framework was based on Juan J.Linz and Seymour Martin Lipsets ideas on legitimacy and efficacy.

Centralposthuset i Göteborg uppfördes mellan 1918-25 för att man mer effektivt skulle kunna sortera och distribuera post. Idag finns det planer pÄ att bygga om detta tomma monumentala posthus till ett hotell. Huset och dess historia innehÄller mÄnga berÀttelser. Detta finns i dess visuella gestaltning och arkitektur, men ocksÄ genom dess funktion och betydelse för samhÀllet. FrÄgor av modern gestaltning som placeras in i en historisk kontext blir viktiga att diskutera nÀr denna förÀndring av huset blir realitet.

The Swedish government ratified on May 1 2009 an amendment of marital law, resulting in same-sex marriage becoming legalized. With the rights of the Christian Swedish state church to officiate weddings originating from the same law, the church was thereby faced with two options: Either officially include same-sex couples in the Christian concept of holy matrimony and keep the right to officiate weddings; or give up the right to officiate weddings altogether. An official decision to accept the terms was reached on October 22 2009, but not without being preceded by an agitated medial debate.This research attempts to analyze the arguments of the debate in three stages: In the first stage the arguments are categorized according to their respective ideological standpoint. In the second stage these categories are examined from post-modern, social constructivist and socialization theory perspectives. Based on this, the third stage sees the arguments analyzed from a viewpoint based in the Copenhagen school concept of securization.The research concludes that the debate does not only simply feature two sides with differences of opinion; but rather that the arguments of the two opposing sides are founded in a common view of the other side as a fundamental threat to ones conception of a sound society..