Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

I - Material Transformations

pp 1-2

Introduction

pp 3-4

1 - Tracing Other in 17th-Century Sweden

pp 5-26

2 - Houses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar

pp 27-46

3 - Indigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio

pp 47-60

4 - Brewing an Ethnic Identity: Local and Foreign Beer Brewing Traditions in 15th- to 17th-Century Sweden – an Example from Nya Lödöse

pp 61-86

5 - Tactile Relations: Material Entanglement between Sweden and its Colonies

pp 87-104

II - Migration and Neighbourly Interactions

pp 105-106

Introduction

pp 107-108

6 - Marrying “the Other”: Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Eastern Borderlands of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th Century

pp 109-124

7 - Ideas from Abroad: German Weavers as Agents of Large-Scale Cloth Production and a Continental Lifestyle in 17th-Century Sweden

pp 125-144

8 - Foreign Merchants in Early Modern Sweden: A Case of Intermarriage, Trade and Migration

pp 145-168

9 - Aspects of “British” Migration to Sweden in the 17th Century

pp 169-186

10 - Commodities, Consumption and Forest Finns in Central Sweden

pp 187-208

11 - Encountering “the Other” in the North – Colonial Histories in Early Modern Northern Sweden

pp 209-228

12 - Lapland's Taxation as a Reflection of “Otherness” in the Swedish Realm in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Colonialism, or a Priority Right of the Sami People?

pp 229-238

III - Overseas Travel

pp 239-240

Introduction

pp 241-242

13 - “How It Would Be to Walk On the New World with Feet from the Old”: Facing Otherness in Colonial America

pp 243-260

14 - Inscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638–1655

pp 261-288

15 - Men You Can Trust? Intercultural Trust and Masculinity in the Eyes of Swedes in 18th-Century Canton

pp 289-306

16 - The Barbary Coast and Ottoman Slavery in the Swedish Early Modern Imagination

pp 307-326

17 - A World of Distinctions: Pehr Löfling and the Meaning of Difference

pp 327-348

IV - Conclusions

pp 349-350