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• Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

  This chapter offers an interpretation of extended families as communities of experience in a rural area close to the eastern border of the Swedish realm. Through a case study of lower court records, Kuha examines the social ...

• Boys learning craft skills : Rural artisan apprenticeships in early modern Finland 

  Uotila, Merja (École Française de Rome, 2019)

  Research on handicrafts has generally concentrated on the study of urban artisans and guilds. However, not all artisans operated in towns, nor were rural artisans always small marginal groups. For instance, the majority ...

• Poverty and Tax Exemptions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland 

  Voutilainen, Miikka (Sam Houston State University, 2017)

  The topic of this article is the nature and social character of Finnish rural poverty during the early stages of industrialization. Specifically, I analyze households exempted from two separate taxes in order to locate ...

• Ajatuksella ja ahkeruudella kolmen suvun vaiheista neljältä vuosisadalta 

  Karonen, Petri (Agricola, Suomen humanistiverkko, 2018)

  Perttu Immonen yhdistää teoksessaan mielenkiintoisesti ja elävästi mikro- ja makrohistorian varhaismodernin ajan Suomessa. Hän seuraa kronologisesti kolmen eri seutukunnan: LänsiSuomen Sastamalan, Itä-Suomen Rantasalmen ...

• Enterprising People and the Threat of Impoverishment and Social Loss : The Consequences of Urban Business Failure in Finland at the End of the 1870s 

  Turunen, Riina (Sam Houston State University, 2017)

  This article contemplates the individual level socioeconomic consequences of bankruptcy by studying market-oriented, self-employed people in Jyvaskyla, a small town in central Finland. The article asks if poverty and ...