Peter Lindström
PhD/lecturer (assistant professor) of history at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Sweden
My main area of interest is Swedish and European politics in the early modern period. My doctoral thesis and published articles, so far, all concern local political culture in a broad sense, in both urban and rural areas in Sweden.
I am currently involved in a comparative study between Denmark and Sweden and the both Scandinavian kingdoms relations to France and The Holy Roman Empire (and the Sea powers). An over-all purpose is to study how the Scandinavian kingdoms and the power balance in Scandinavia was effected by the French and Austrian struggle for hegemony in Europe during the period 1648-1735. I am mainly focusing on a comparative study of the policy of the kings councils in Sweden and Denmark and to which extent domestic policy in both countries was effected by the Austrian and French struggle for hegemony. My colleague Professor Svante Norrhem is mainly focusing on the influence French and Austrian diplomats stationed in Stockholm and Copenhagen had on the foreign policy of the two countries.
Email: peter.lindstrom@historia.umu.se
Web Page: http://www.idesam.umu.se/om/personal/historia/peter-lindstrom/