About
Göran Rydén is a Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Economic History and affiliated with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF). His research focuses on the creation of modern society, industrialization, technological change, and global historical connections, particularly Sweden's role in the 18th-century Atlantic economy.
- Research Themes: Industrialization, Iron Industry, Atlantic Trade, Enlightenment Studies, Urban History.
Recent publications analyze coerced labor in Swedish ironmaking regions, localized knowledge production, and the integration of Swedish iron into global trade networks. His work bridges economic history with transnational cultural and technological exchanges.
Key trends in his articles include the intersection of metallurgy and colonial economics, the role of iron in the Atlantic slave trade, and the evolution of Swedish industrial practices through European knowledge circulation.
