By Benjamin Groth University of Wisconsin–Madison The mid-nineteenth century was, in many ways, a period of pronounced transition in Sweden’s history and bore multifarious paradigm shifts in almost every facet of Swedish society. Of particular note are demographic and infrastructural development; Sweden, like much of Europe at this time, underwent industrialization and institutional reform, though the processes were sometimes more ambiguous and later-occurring than continental trajectories.1 Pronounced urbanization and growth of per capita GDP began only in the later part of…