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This paper deals with private and common land-ownership, especially with the changes in the use of woodlands and forests. Based on certain local case-studies of conflicts in the early eighteenth century, it discusses the motives of different actors such as the state, landlords, peasants and cottagers. In Sweden the process of individualisation and privatisation within rural society received an impetus from the agrarian reforms of 1757, 1803-07 and 1827. The shift, however, was rather slow, and it was not till the early twentieth century that the old agrarian system, based on the common use of meadows, woods and forests, had really changed. The Swedish case follows certain specific patterns which need to be highlighted. Firstly, it must be noticed that peasants had a rather strong influence on the process of change, owing to a system which gave them political representation, both on a regional level at the so-called "Thing", and on the central level of parliament, where peasants formed their own estate. Secondly, the state-authorities were able to work quite effectively. Representatives of the administration worked in close association with members of the local society, as, for inst

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Author

Kerstin Sundberg

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2000

Language

DE

Field

Social Sciences