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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | [Host publication title missing] |
Publisher | ESSHC |
Pages | 1-12 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | 7th European Social Science History Conference, 2008: network Ethnicity and Migration - Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 2008 Feb 26 → 2008 Mar 1 |
Conference
Conference | 7th European Social Science History Conference, 2008 |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 2008/02/26 → 2008/03/01 |
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.