The Swedish postal experience: Learning postal business by military occupation and intellectual merger in seventeenth century Europe.

Magnus Linnarsson

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Abstract

The Swedish state and its administrative organization experienced, like its European neighbours, an extensive development and transformation in the beginning of the 17th century. One part of the administration that for the first time was organised in a formal way was the postal services. This paper discuss the origins of national postal systems in relation to the development of bureaucratic and administrative state organizations. I argue that an organised postal system is of fundamental importance for the growth of the states administrative organization. The circumstances in Sweden suit well for this purpose. Sweden had grown into a co-actor in European politics at the end of the Thirty Years' War.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication[Host publication title missing]
PublisherESSHC
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event7th European Social Science History Conference, 2008: network Ethnicity and Migration - Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 2008 Feb 262008 Mar 1

Conference

Conference7th European Social Science History Conference, 2008
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period2008/02/262008/03/01

Bibliographical note

Confernce paper to the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, March 2008. ESSHC Panel: The Hardware of the State. Politics, Citizenship and Nations Network.

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • History

Free keywords

  • Postal history
  • Early modern history
  • Communications history.

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