Pia Lundqvist
SENIOR LECTURER
Department of HistoricalAbout Pia Lundqvist
I have a PhD in history and my doctoral thesis from 2008 (“Marknad på väg”) contains a study on peddling in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries.
My main research interests lie in the areas of the history of consumption, retailing, and trade, with a particular focus on textiles and material culture, migration, and cultural encounters. Apart from the research projects presented below, I have taken part in an interdisciplinary book project on technical innovations and fashion in the textile industry in the 19th century (“Dolda innovationer”, 2013). In another project, I study how different aspects related to the consumption of goods are reflected in 19th century Swedish novels.
Equals or subordinates? Male and female Swedish missionaries in the Congo Free State, 1886–1908
Protestant missions were a significant transnational movement and an early venue between “the West and the Rest”. The project’s starting point is the encounter between Swedish missionaries and the people in the Congo Free State, when The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (SMF) was established in the country in the 1880s. Even though the missionaries had been raised in a popular movement with strong emancipatory features, they were influenced by the more or less clearly expressed racist ideas of the time. In the Congo, the missionaries inevitably became part of the white supremacy sphere. My study takes its point of departure in the contradicting roles of the missionaries and aims to examine their views of their assignment and how their self-understanding corresponded with their everyday work. This approach also involves analysing the missionaries’ attitudes towards those in power and the Congolese population. Recent research on the function and ideology of the Christian mission to the Congo has highlighted its complexity and ambivalence. My contribution to this field of research is to present new perspectives based in gender and post-colonial history. I also want to contrast the emancipatory tradition of popular movements against colonial ideology, and draw attention to the complexity of different missionary identities and power hierarchies of gender, race, and class within the mission. The project is financed by the Swedish Research Council and started in 2014.
A Jewish web of textiles and trade, Gothenburg 1782–1850
The project’s primary aim is to investigate the Jewish minority in Gothenburg in the early 19th century, focusing on its role in textile production and trade. The first wave of Jewish immigration to Sweden coincided with a dynamic period in Swedish history. Although Gothenburg was only a small town on the European periphery, it was already a multicultural city in the early nineteenth century with a great deal of international contacts and several ethnic minorities. Local industry increased in the city, and was mainly responsible for the production of consumer goods in the food and textile industries. Several of the Jewish entrepreneurs were engaged in textile production and many more had established themselves in commerce.
The dominance of the Jewish community coincides well with the strong expansion of the Swedish consumer market. Jewish merchants had an essential impact on the textile industry as pioneers in the development of calico printing in Gothenburg and also when it came to the use of machine looms from the 1830s and onwards. However, these first groups lost their significance in relation to other producers after the 1820s and 1830s. However, even during this period, Jewish tradesmen sold attractive modern textiles and other consumer goods in Gothenburg and contributed to the distribution of these goods in the countryside through their connections with Swedish peddlers. International connections, such as intertwined ethnic, religious, economic and family relations in Germany, Denmark, and England, supported the Jewish entrepreneurs with access to capital, transfer of commercial competence, and industrial knowledge. The local Jewish community was an arena for reciprocal relationships and functioned as a financial network with a relatively small elite at its core. These features are also identifiable in the international research on 'Port Jews'.
Internal factors, related to the history of the Jewish diaspora and a long Jewish textile tradition, interplayed with external influence, such as legal conditions in Sweden and the relevant geographic, economic and social context. Even if the law excluded them in many ways, it was possible for Jews to trade and invest in industries. It appears that the port city Gothenburg was a favourable place for Jewish entrepreneurs, considering the city’s vibrant economy and, presumably, a high degree of openness and tolerance towards foreigners. Jews had rather good opportunities to run businesses, even if there was some hostility from other retailers in the city on a few occasions. The Jewish financial elite soon became an integral part of the emerging bourgeoisie. This research project was carried out together with the economic historian Anna Brismark, PhD, and financed by the Swedish Research Council.
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Christina Wilhelmina "Mina"
Svensson
Pia Lundqvist
Svenskt biografiskt lexikon : Band 34 (2013-2019) - 2019-01-01 -
Selma Karolina
Laman
Pia Lundqvist
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018-01-01 -
Elisabeth (Elsa) Dionysia
Borg
Pia Lundqvist
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018-01-01 -
Christina Wilhelmina
Svensson
Pia Lundqvist
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018-01-01 -
Barbro
Nilsson
Pia Lundqvist
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018-01-01 -
Från hushåll till marknad – handlande västgötar och konsumtionssamhällets
födelse
Pia Lundqvist
Aktuellt om historia - 2018-01-01 -
A contradictory encounter : swedish missionaries and the local population in the Congo Free
State
Pia Lundqvist
Concurrencies in postcolonial research : perspectives, Methodologies, and Engagements / Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta (ed.) - 2018-01-01 -
’Sjukdom och död’. Selma Lamans berättelser från Kongo
1891–1919
Pia Lundqvist
Allvarligt talat. Berättelser om livet / red. Maria Sjöberg. - 2018-01-01 -
Ett motsägelsefullt möte. Svenska missionärer och bakongo i Fristaten
Kongo
Pia Lundqvist
- 2018-01-01 -
A translocal diaspora on the edge of modernity? The Jewish minority in Gothenburg in late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries
Pia Lundqvist, Anna Brismark
Connecting Worlds and People: Early modern diasporas / edited by Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht - 2017-01-01 -
Taste for hot drinks – the consumption of coffee and tea in two Swedish nineteenth-century
novels
Pia Lundqvist
History of Retailing and Consumption - 2016-01-01 -
Yvonne Maria Werner, Katolsk manlighet, anm. av Pia
Lundqvist
Pia Lundqvist
Historisk tidskrift - 2016-01-01 -
A Diaspora on the Edge of Modernity?: The Jewish Minority in Gothenburg in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth
Centuries
Pia Lundqvist, Anna Brismark
Connecting Worlds and People : early modern diasporas / Edited by Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht - 2016-01-01 -
Den goda smaken – konsumtion av kolonialvaror och alkohol i tre svenska
1800-talsromaner
Pia Lundqvist
Scandia : tidskrift för historisk forskning - 2015-01-01 -
A question of taste: Consumption of imported goods and alcohol in three Swedish nineteenth-century
novels
Pia Lundqvist
Scandia - 2015-01-01 -
A Textile Web: Jewish immigrants in Gothenburg in the early nineteenth century and their impact on the textile
market
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
Scandinavian Journal of History - 2015-01-01 -
Rural Retailing of Textiles in Early Nineteenth-Century
Sweden
Pia Lundqvist, Anna Brismark
Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century. Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe. Edited by Jon Stobart & Bruno Blondé - 2014-01-01 -
Väckelse, läshunger och
utbildningsvägar
Pia Lundqvist
TeKla 16, Tema: Anders Molander, redaktör: David Karlsson, Pia Lundqvist, Mikael Löfgren - 2014-01-01 -
Mission och passion. Minas livsresa från Tvärred till
Tundua
Pia Lundqvist
Personligt talat. Biografiska perspektiv i humaniora. (red.) Maria Sjöberg - 2014-01-01 -
Sidensjalar och socker: Judiska näringsidkares betydelse för konsumtionsrevolutionen i
Sverige
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
Från sidensjalar till flyktingmottagning: Judarna i Sverige – en minoritets historia (red.) Lars M Andersson & Carl Henrik Carlsson - 2013-01-01 -
Methodological reflections on fiction in historical
research
Henric Bagerius, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Pia Lundqvist
Historisk Tidskrift - 2013-01-01 -
Skönlitteraturen i historievetenskapen – några metodologiska
reflektioner
Henric Bagerius, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Pia Lundqvist
Historisk Tidskrift - 2013-01-01 -
Förbjudna
tyger
Pia Lundqvist
Dolda innovationer: Textila produkter och ny teknik under 1800-talet (red. Klas Nyberg & Pia Lundqvist) - 2013-01-01 -
Dolda Innovationer: Textila produkter och ny teknik under
1800-talet
Klas Nyberg, Pia Lundqvist
- 2013-01-01 -
Jewish Merchants and the Consumer Market in early 19th Century
Sweden
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
ESSHC 2012 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 11 -14 April 2012 – Material and Consumer Culture /MAT06: The Early Modern Consumer (R)evolution(s) in Comparative Perspective - 2012-01-01 -
En del av den borgerliga gemenskapen? – Judiska entreprenörer och deras nätverk i det tidiga 1800-talets
Göteborg
Pia Lundqvist, Anna Brismark
Heimen : tidsskrift utg. av Landslaget for bygde- og byhistorie - 2012-01-01 -
En judisk elit i det tidiga 1800-talets
Göteborg
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
Svenska historikermötet Göteborg 5–7 maj 2011 Sessionen ”Kulturmöten och svensk-judisk historia: Ny forskning om judisk 1800-talskultur”. - 2011-01-01 -
Judiska entreprenörer i det tidiga 1800-talets
Göteborg
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
Det nordiske historikermøtet, Tromsö 11–14 augusti 2011 Sessionen: Etnisitet, kjønn og entreprenørskap i nordiske byer, ca. 1850-2000 - 2011-01-01 -
Fångad i nationen? Svenska historikermötet, Göteborg, 5–7 maj
2011
Pia Lundqvist
Historisk tidskrift - 2011-01-01 -
Lyx - gyllene drömmar och ett konsumtionssamhlle i
vardande
Pia Lundqvist
Trettioåtta tunnor guld / [redaktör: Halla Sigurdardơttir] - 2011-01-01 -
Mellan förnuft och känsla : Ett konsumtionshistoriskt perspektiv på Emelie Flygare-Carléns Ett köpmanshus i
skärgården
Pia Lundqvist
Moderna historier: Skönlitteratur i det moderna samhällets framväxt, red.Henric Bagerius ; Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson - 2011-01-01 -
Consumption fantasies in Modern Literature 1820-1860. The making of the modern
consumer
Christer Ahlberger, Pia Lundqvist
ESSHC 2010 – Material and Consumer Culture /MAT03: Homemaking, Cherishing and the Senses - 2010-01-01 -
Hemslöjden och Stockholms textilmarknad. Den västgötska gårdfarihandeln
1790–1846.
Pia Lundqvist
Till salu. Stockholms textila handel och manufaktur 1722-1846. Nyberg, Klas (red.) - 2010-01-01 -
Oordning – Torghandel i Stockholm
1540–1918
Pia Lundqvist
Scandia - - 2010-01-01 -
Handel och lurendrjeeri i det sena 1700-talets
Göteborg.
Pia Lundqvist
1700-talets Göteborg - 2010-01-01 -
Före lanthandelns tid? Förutsättningarna för och förekomsten av handel på den svenska landsbygden före
1846
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist
Kommers. Historiska handelsformer i Norden under 1700- och 1800-talen. Andersson, Gudrun & Nyberg, Klas (red.) - 2010-01-01 -
Gränslös handel i ekonomisk
brytningstid
Pia Lundqvist
Heimen - 2009-01-01 -
Människor, föremål och konsumtionsdrömmar. En konsumtionshistorisk läsning av "Ett köpmanshus i
skärgården"
Pia Lundqvist
Historier. Arton- och nittonhundratalens skönlitteratur som historisk källa - 2009-01-01 -
Historier: Arton- och nittonhundratalens skönlitteratur som historisk
källa
Christer Ahlberger, Henric Bagerius, Carl Holmberg, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Pia Lundqvist, Tomas Nilson, Brita Planck
- 2009-01-01 -
Marknad på väg. Den västgötska gårdfarihandeln
1790–1864
Pia Lundqvist
- 2008-01-01 -
”Gårdfarihandeln mellan privilegiesamhället och
marknaden”
Pia Lundqvist
Handel och risk. Fyra uppsatser från Ekonomisk-historiska mötet vid Umeå Universitet 2005, red. Klas Nyberg. Uppsala papers in Economic History No. 2, 2008. - 2008-01-01 -
Inledning
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger
Varans vägar och världar. Handel och konsumtion i Skandinavien ca 1600–1900 - 2007-01-01 -
Som en spindel i nätet. Gårdfarihandlaren och den växande marknaden för textilier i Sverige
1828–1846
Pia Lundqvist
Varans vägar och världar. Handel och konsumtion i Skandinavien ca 1600–1900 - 2007-01-01 -
Varans vägar och världar. Handel och konsumtion i Skandinavien ca
1600–1900
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger
- 2007-01-01 -
Gårdfarihandeln – smuggling och ett sofistikerat system för inhemsk
varuspridning
Pia Lundqvist
Företagsminnen - 2005-01-01 -
Arbete över gränsen – säsongsvandringar till 1700-talets
Bohuslän.
Pia Lundqvist
Gränser. Populärvetenskapliga föreläsningar hållna under Humanistdagarna den 4-5 oktober 2003. (Humanistdag-boken 16.) - 2003-01-01