Göran Rydén
Professor at Department of Economic History
- E-mail:
- goran.ryden@ibf.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Professor in economic history, especially construction and settlement at Institute for Housing and Urban Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 65 18
- E-mail:
- Goran.Ryden@ibf.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Trädgårdsgatan 18
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Publications
Selection of publications
Viewing and Walking: Swedish Visitors to Eighteenth-Century London
Part of Journal of urban history, p. 255-274, 2013
From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy
Part of Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity, Springer, 2013
The Enlightenment in Practice: Swedish Travellers and Knowledge about the Metal Trades
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, 2013
Provincial Cosmopolitanism: An Introduction
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World, p. 1-32, Ashgate, 2013
Sveaborg and the End of the Swedish Cosmopolitan Eighteenth Century: An Epilogue
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World, p. 325-334, Ashgate, 2013
Eskilstuna Fristad: The beginnings of an urban experiment
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World. , p. 123-146, Ashgate, 2013
The best iron in the world: Öregrund Iron and British Steel Making in the eighteenth century
Part of L'acier en Europe avant Bessemer, Université Paris, 2011
Industrialismen: Ankomsten av det moderna
Part of Jordpäron, p. 389-399, Atlantis, 2011
Global historia från periferin.: Norden 1600-1850
Studentlitteratur, 2010
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 659-667, 2009
Global historia: - något för nordiska historiker
Part of Global histora från periferin., p. 13-38, Studentlitteratur, 2009
Fran Gammelbo till Calabar.: Det svenska järnet och den expanderande atlantiska ekonomin
Part of Global historia från periferin., p. 75-96, Studentlitteratur, 2009
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, p. 63-81, 2008
Iron marks as early brand names: Swedish iron in the Atlantic market during the eighteenth century
Part of Information Flows, p. 193-211, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
Baltic Iron and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
Brill, 2007
Part of Med Hammare och Fackla, p. 151-180, Sancte Örjens gille, 2006
Iron marks as early brand names: Swedish iron in the Atlantic market during the eighteenth century
2006
Ashgate, 2005
Part of Spinning the commercial Web, p. 395, Lang, 2004
Baltic iron and the organisation of the British iron market in the eighteenth century
Part of Britain and the Baltic: studies in commercial, political and cultural relations 1500-2000, p. 358, University of Sunderland Press, Sunderland, 2003
Novelties and Responses. Iron and coal in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, Sweden, (and Russia)
Part of Atti delle, p. 823-838, Firenze, 2003
Part of Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Metallurgic Industry: Historical Overview
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Metallurgical Industry: Industrial Organisation and Markets
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Vallonerna, det moderna samhället och forskarna
Part of Valloner, p. 9-24, Gidlund i samarbete med Dalarnas forskningsråd, Hedemora; Uppsala, 2002
Baltic iron and the British iron industry in the eighteenth century
Part of Economic History Review, p. 642-665, 2002
Vallonbruk, vallonsmeder och vallonsmide - en precisering av ett kunskapsläge
Part of Valloner - järnets människor, Gidlund i samarbete med Dalarnas forskningsråd, Hedemora; Uppsala, 2002
Part of Industrialismens tid. Ekonomisk-historiska perspektiv på svensk industriell omvandling under 200 år, SNS förl., Stockholm, 2002
Sketches of Spain. The journey of Reinhold Rücker Angerstein 1752
Part of Spanish-Swedish relations from the mid seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, Avdelningen för spanska, Göteborgs universitet: Iberoamerikanska institutet, Göteborg, 2002
British Ironmasters in the Eighteenth Century
Part of Europäische Montanregion Harz, p. 81-92, 2001
The social organization of work in mines, furnaces and forges
Part of Iron-making societies: early industrial development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900, R.I. : Berghahn, Providence, 1998
Social Organisation of the Swedish Bar Iron Production
Part of 15. The Social Organisation of the European Iron Industry, 1600-1900. Proceedings from a Conference, p. 167-205, 1997
Mästersmedernas uttåg? Den svenska järnhanteringens förändring före götstålets entré
Part of Svenskt järn under 2500 år. Från gruvpigor och smedsdrängar till operatörer, Daedalus., 1997
Recruitment, kinship and the distribution of skill. Bar iron making in Britain and Sweden 1500-1800
Part of Social History Society Bulletin, p. 17-18, 1996
Part of Societies made up of history, p. 42, 1996
Arbete, hushåll och region. Tankar om industrialiseringsprocesser och den svens-ka järnhanteringen.
1992
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 1-31, 1992
Recent publications
Moving towards the industrial: Ironmaking and historical change
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 360-388, 2024
Rörelser mot det industriella: Bergsbruk och historisk förändring
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 360-388, 2024
Improving Swedish Steelmaking: Circulation and Localized Knowledge-Making in Early Modernity
Part of Technology and culture, p. 515-542, 2023
Part of The knowledge economy, p. 237-262, Firenze University Press (FUP), 2023
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Making iron, producing space!: How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region
Part of Labor history, p. 706-719, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Moving towards the industrial: Ironmaking and historical change
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 360-388, 2024
Rörelser mot det industriella: Bergsbruk och historisk förändring
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 360-388, 2024
Improving Swedish Steelmaking: Circulation and Localized Knowledge-Making in Early Modernity
Part of Technology and culture, p. 515-542, 2023
Making iron, producing space!: How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region
Part of Labor history, p. 706-719, 2023
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‘Voyage iron’: an Atlantic slave trade currency, its European origins, and West African impact
Part of Past & Present, p. 41-70, 2018
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From Razors to Rock Drills: Metals in the Early Modern World
Part of Scandia, p. 107-117, 2015
Från rakhyvlar till bergborrar: Metaller i den tidigmoderna världen
Part of Scandia, 2015
Viewing and Walking: Swedish Visitors to Eighteenth-Century London
Part of Journal of urban history, p. 255-274, 2013
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 659-667, 2009
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, p. 63-81, 2008
Baltic iron and the British iron industry in the eighteenth century
Part of Economic History Review, p. 642-665, 2002
Part of Dagens Nyheter, 2001
Recruitment, kinship and the distribution of skill. Bar iron making in Britain and Sweden 1500-1800
Part of Social History Society Bulletin, p. 17-18, 1996
Part of Societies made up of history, p. 42, 1996
Iron production and the household as a production unit in nineteenth century Sweden
Part of Continuity and Change, 1995
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 1-31, 1992
Books
Chapters in book
Part of The knowledge economy, p. 237-262, Firenze University Press (FUP), 2023
- DOI for The œconomia of iron and steel: Material transformations, manual skills, and technical improvement in early modern Sweden
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Making and Trading Metals: A Narrative of Swedish Improvement
Part of Political Reason and the Language of Change, p. 218-238, Routledge, 2022
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Med svenska ögon på Røros och den norska kopparhanteringen
Part of Skandinavisk kobber, p. 164-179, Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2020
Part of Locating the Global, p. 117-145, Walter de Gruyter, 2020
Part of Globalized Peripheries, Boydell & Brewer, 2020
Balancing the Divine with the Private: The Practices of Hushållning inEighteenth-Century Sweden
Part of Cameralismin practice, Boydell & Brewer, 2017
Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context
Part of Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star, p. 71-87, Berghahn Books, 2017
Part of Making a Living, Making a Difference, Oxford University Press, 2016
Part of Making a Living, Making a Difference, Oxford University Press, 2016
How ‘travellers in trade’ changed Swedish perceptions of economic systems in the eighteenth century’
Part of Global Scientific Practice in the Age of Revolutions, 1750 – 1850, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016
From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy
Part of Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity, Springer, 2013
The Enlightenment in Practice: Swedish Travellers and Knowledge about the Metal Trades
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, 2013
Provincial Cosmopolitanism: An Introduction
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World, p. 1-32, Ashgate, 2013
Sveaborg and the End of the Swedish Cosmopolitan Eighteenth Century: An Epilogue
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World, p. 325-334, Ashgate, 2013
Eskilstuna Fristad: The beginnings of an urban experiment
Part of Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World. , p. 123-146, Ashgate, 2013
Det tidigmoderna bergsbrukets män och kvinnor: – forskning om arbetare och arbete
Part of Levebröd, 2011
The best iron in the world: Öregrund Iron and British Steel Making in the eighteenth century
Part of L'acier en Europe avant Bessemer, Université Paris, 2011
Industrialismen: Ankomsten av det moderna
Part of Jordpäron, p. 389-399, Atlantis, 2011
Global historia: - något för nordiska historiker
Part of Global histora från periferin., p. 13-38, Studentlitteratur, 2009
Fran Gammelbo till Calabar.: Det svenska järnet och den expanderande atlantiska ekonomin
Part of Global historia från periferin., p. 75-96, Studentlitteratur, 2009
Contrasting Merchant Communities in the Early Eighteenth Century: Stockholm, Calabar and Charlestown
Part of Trade, Migration and Urban Networks, c. 1640-1940, p. 33-48, International Maritime Economic History Association, 2008
Iron marks as early brand names: Swedish iron in the Atlantic market during the eighteenth century
Part of Information Flows, p. 193-211, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
Part of Med Hammare och Fackla, p. 151-180, Sancte Örjens gille, 2006
Part of Spinning the commercial Web, p. 395, Lang, 2004
Baltic iron and the organisation of the British iron market in the eighteenth century
Part of Britain and the Baltic: studies in commercial, political and cultural relations 1500-2000, p. 358, University of Sunderland Press, Sunderland, 2003
Novelties and Responses. Iron and coal in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, Sweden, (and Russia)
Part of Atti delle, p. 823-838, Firenze, 2003
Part of Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Metallurgic Industry: Historical Overview
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Metallurgical Industry: Industrial Organisation and Markets
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Part of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Vallonerna, det moderna samhället och forskarna
Part of Valloner, p. 9-24, Gidlund i samarbete med Dalarnas forskningsråd, Hedemora; Uppsala, 2002
Vallonbruk, vallonsmeder och vallonsmide - en precisering av ett kunskapsläge
Part of Valloner - järnets människor, Gidlund i samarbete med Dalarnas forskningsråd, Hedemora; Uppsala, 2002
Part of Industrialismens tid. Ekonomisk-historiska perspektiv på svensk industriell omvandling under 200 år, SNS förl., Stockholm, 2002
Sketches of Spain. The journey of Reinhold Rücker Angerstein 1752
Part of Spanish-Swedish relations from the mid seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, Avdelningen för spanska, Göteborgs universitet: Iberoamerikanska institutet, Göteborg, 2002
British Ironmasters in the Eighteenth Century
Part of Europäische Montanregion Harz, p. 81-92, 2001
The social organization of work in mines, furnaces and forges
Part of Iron-making societies: early industrial development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900, R.I. : Berghahn, Providence, 1998
Social Organisation of the Swedish Bar Iron Production
Part of 15. The Social Organisation of the European Iron Industry, 1600-1900. Proceedings from a Conference, p. 167-205, 1997
Mästersmedernas uttåg? Den svenska järnhanteringens förändring före götstålets entré
Part of Svenskt järn under 2500 år. Från gruvpigor och smedsdrängar till operatörer, Daedalus., 1997
Collections (editor)
Global historia från periferin.: Norden 1600-1850
Studentlitteratur, 2010
Ashgate, 2005
Conference papers
Reports
Other
Part of Technology and culture, p. 1242-1243, 2020
Part of Technology and culture, p. 1242-1243, 2020
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, 2018