Nordic Academic Press: 57 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
With contributions from various experts, this is an interdisciplinary approach to the global phenomenon that is the Twilight series, which has evolved well beyond the novels by Stephenie Meyer. This anthology contains in-depth film analyses, gender perspectives, economic and literary studies of the...
Methods in World History
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Methods in World History is the first international volume that systematically addresses a number of methodological problems specific to the field of World History. Prompted by a lack of applicable works, the authors advocate a considerable sharpening of the tools used within the discipline. Theories...
Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Contexts
Socio-Cultural History and the Legacy of Egil Johansson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In this detailed study of the history of universal literacy in Sweden, a group of renowned scholars review and explore the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies, expounding upon the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Comprehensive and concise, this account details the agrarian history of Sweden-as it is defined by its present national borders-from the Neolithic times to present day. Key historical concepts and events are discussed, including the introduction of planned agriculture alongside the domestication of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A systematic approach to analyzing some of the transient aspects of war and peace with empirical cases that include Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Armenian genocide, this book discusses some of the critical and transformative issues in war and peacemaking. Considering subjects such as...
Women's Language
An Analysis of Style and Expression in Letters Before 1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By linguistic close-reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centuries—written in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and English—this compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis,...
Welcome Home Mr Swanson
Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Between 1840 and 1940, more than one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for...
Story of War
Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610–1710
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"O God we thank thee" was sung in the churches of France and Sweden after military victories in the seventeenth century. To celebrate Thanksgiving was a way of thanking God, but also a way for the rulers to legitimize the ever ongoing wars. For the inhabitants it was both an occasion for...
Legitimizing ESS
Big Science as a Collaboration Across Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"Big Science" is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects that involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of planning, and large multidisciplinary teams of researchers. Legitimizing the ESS examines the complexity of the cultural, social,...
The Atomized Body
The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes and Neurons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Referring to the focus of the biosciences on molecular "particles" of the human biology—such as stem cells, genes, and neurons—this account examines the relationships between culture, society, and bioscientific research. Showing that the atomized body is indeed socially and culturally...
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
Origins, Changes & Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian...
Ballast
Laden with History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In Ballast: Laden with History, the archaeologist Mats Burström charts how ship ballast helped to shape the world we live in. Until only very recently, ships were ballasted with sand, gravel, stone, or rubble to give them stability, and when they no longer needed the extra weight, it was dumped....
Reaching a State of Hope
Refugees, Immigrants and the Swedish Welfare State, 19302000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysis examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did they come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were...
Flattering Alliances
Scandinavia, Diplomacy and the Austrian-French Balance of Power, 16481740
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Taking a fresh look at the history of diplomacy, this book looks at the fight for hegemony between France and Austria after the Peace of Westphalia 1648, showing how their clashes dragged the Scandinavian kingdoms into European top-level politics and forced them to take part in the play, constantly...