Module 1: An overview of institutions of and strategies for survival in early modern Northern Europe

• Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004Obligatorisk*
• Dennison, T.K.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh, "Serfdom and social capital in Bohemia and Russia": in Economic History Review 60, 3, 2007.Obligatorisk*
• Erickson, Amy, "Coverture and Capitalism": in History Workshop Journal 59, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Hunt, Margaret R., Women in eighteenth-century Europe, 1st ed., Harlow, England ;a New York, Pearson Longman, 2009Obligatorisk*
• Österberg, Eva, Change and adaptation: mechanisms of a peasant economy, Ingår i: Mentalities and other realities: essays in medieval and early modern Scandinavian history, Lund, Lund Univ. Press, 1991Obligatorisk*

Later editions of the books listed may be used.

Module 2: Working life

• Fiebranz, Rosemarie, Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden 1750-1850, in the Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400-1900, eds M Ågren & A L Ericksson, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Hay, Douglas.; Craven, Paul, Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955c edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven., Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2004Obligatorisk*
• Heuvel, Danielle van den, "Partners in marriage and business?: Guilds and the family economy in urban food markets in the Dutch Republic", in Continuity and Change 23 (2), 2008Obligatorisk*
• Lottum, Jelle van, in The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea- and Baltic Region, Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, 2007Obligatorisk*
• Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van, "Couples Cooperating?: Dutch textile workers, family labour and the 'industrious revolution', 1600-1800", in Continuity and Change 23 (2) 2008Obligatorisk*
• Simonton, Deborah, A history of European women's work: 1700 to the present, New York, Routledge, 1998Obligatorisk*
• Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi, Handicrafts as professions and sources of income in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Turku (Åbo): a gender viewpoint to economic history, in Scandinavian Economic History Review 48, 2000Obligatorisk*

Later editions of the books listed may be used.

Module 3: Being in need of help

• Chronicling poverty: the voices and strategies of the English poor, 1640-1840, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996Obligatorisk*
• Ewan, Elizabeth, To the longer liver: Provisions for the dissolution of the marital economy in Scotland, 1470-1550, Ingår i: The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 1400-1900, Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, Ashgate, cop. 2005Obligatorisk*
• Freist, Dagmar, in Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Longman, 1999Obligatorisk*
• Health care and poor relief in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Northern Europe, Ashgate, 2002Obligatorisk*

Later editions of the books listed may be used.

Module 4: Saving, investing and owning

• Bogucka, Maria, "Women and credit operations in Polish towns in early modern times (xvith-xviith centuries)", in Journal of European Economic History 32, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Marrese, Michelle Lamarche, A woman's kingdom: noblewomen and the control of property in Russia, 1700-1861, Ithaca ;a London, Cornell University Press, 2002Obligatorisk*
• Rosenhaft, Eve, Did women invent lifeinsurance?: widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany, Ingår i: Family welfare: gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century, Westport, Conn., Praeger Publishers, 2004Obligatorisk*
• Spicksley, Judith, "Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods", in Economic History Review, 61:2, 2008Obligatorisk*
• Ågren, Maria, "For better for worse: Swedish marriage and property law in a comparative perspective", in Familles, saviors et reproduction dans l'Europe médiévale et modern. Actes des colloques de Rome, Parme et Nanterre, Rom, 2009Obligatorisk*

Later editions of the books listed may be used.

Huvudgrupp 5

Literature comprises approx. 1.500 pages.

Primary sources will be provided by the teacher.

* Obligatorisk