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The history of man is to a large extent the history of organisations. For as long as there are written records to study, people have co-operated to make use of scant resources in a more effective way. Hierarchical organisations have been conspicuous throughout history, from churches and states to firms and trade unions. But there are other forms of organisation as well: market relations, shaped by the balance between supply and demand, and horizontal network relations based on trust and friendship. This book is a tribute to late Professor Jan Glete, focusing on the dynamic interaction of organisations, norm systems and institutional changes. The texts cover a time span from the first cultures up until present day, and include European as well as Japanese and South American history. But the book also highlights the need to organise historical knowledge through the critical use of theory. As is shown in the intriguing and challenging articles, the organisational perspective may be just as fruitful for the study of medieval iron works as in analysing modern marketing campaigns.

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Anna Maria Forssberg is a senior curator at the Swedish Army Museum and a board member of the Swedish Delegation of Military History. She is the author of Army Museum: On War and People and the editor of a specially themed issue of the Swedish Historical Journal entitled War. Mats Hallenberg is a senior lecturer in history at Stockholm University. His work has been published in journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of History. Orsi Husz is an associate senior lecturer in economic history at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her work has been published in the Journal of Modern European History and the Scandinavian Economic History Review. Jonas Nordin is an associate professor in history at Stockholm University and a researcher at the National Library of Sweden. He is a former editor in chief of the leading historical journal in Sweden, Historisk Tidskrift.

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