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  • Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia

    Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationship to ... Read more

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  • Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings

    From the invasion of Britain to the siege of Paris, the Viking age is indeed one of the most tumultuous and formative periods of European history. But what of the forces behind the seismic raids and explorations? What of the ingenious craftsmanship behind the longboats that were beyond their time? Often, a farrago of myths and facts continues to portray a rather foggy image of the Vikings; but ... Read more

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  • The Vikings: Explore the Exciting History of the Viking Age and Discover Some of the Most Feared Warriors

    Take a journey back in time to witness the dawning of a civilization forever defined by its ferocious warriors, highly advanced seafaring technology, and thirst for adventure.The Viking Age! A brief footprint in the course of history that impacted generations hundreds of years into the future. You will dive into the depths of Scandinavia to find out what made the Vikings the most feared group of ... Read more

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  • Married Women in Legal Practice

    Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450

    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a database of all the ... Read more

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  • The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images

    Series series Nordic Studies in a Global Context
    This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic".It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. ... Read more

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  • Reforming Senates

    Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were influenced by the comparatively weak positions of small powers. Reformers responded to crises and ... Read more

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  • Magnus the Lawmender’s Laws of the Land

    Series series Routledge Medieval Translations
    The first English translation of Magnus the Lawmender’s law code, this book allows students and scholars to interpret, compare and add their perspectives to this crucial source to European legal history.The Laws of the Land are one of the very few law books issued in the Middle Ages which regulated a whole kingdom. It stayed in force until the late 17th century, shaping society, politics and law ... Read more

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  • Crafting the Movement

    Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920–1940

    by Jenny Jansson ...
    Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class ... Read more

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  • Norse Mythology

    Norse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This eBook delves into the past and emerges with a legion of breath taking accounts of events, gods, heroes, creatures, worlds and much more.Inside you will learn about…✓ Gods and Goddesses✓ The Nine Worlds✓ Heroes and Legends✓ Mythological Creatures✓ Ten Little Known ... Read more

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  • Vikings

    by History Nerds ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of the Vikings
    Few are those that have not heard of the fearsome Vikings and their daring exploits. These Northern seafarers, the scourge of the Middle Ages, left their mark on the world’s history in a grand fashion. Courageous, defiant, and driven by the desire for exploration, the Norsemen were the most feared of all Medieval conquerors. Many thought them invincible, and they held many struggling Christian ... Read more

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  • Nordic Societal Security

    Convergence and Divergence

    Series series Routledge New Security Studies
    This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, ... Read more

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  • Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980

    Revolt and Resilience

    Series series Routledge Research in Design History
    Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700

    Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700.Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical ... Read more

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  • Саксон Грамматик о дохристианской славянской религии: Новый перевод соответствующих фрагментов XIV книги Деяний Данов

    Среди созданных в эпоху активного существования славянского язычества письменных источников по дохристианской религии и мифологии славян, в большинстве своем крайне фрагментарных и ангажированных, западные, германо-датские, латиноязычные источники выгодно отличаются от арабских свидетельств и документов Древней Руси своей относительной подробностью и меньшей предвзятостью. Но даже на фоне ... Read more

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  • Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe

    The Influence of Smaller Powers

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, ... Read more

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  • Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War

    1931-1945

    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free.Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential ... Read more

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  • Political Reason and the Language of Change

    Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe

    Series series Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
    This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms"."Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures. "Improvement" has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which "reform" is oriented. But the language of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Disability Throughout History

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively.The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar) ... Read more

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  • When We Dead Awaken

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    “When We Dead Awaken”, first published in 1899 as "Naar vi døde vaagner", is the final theatrical drama written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.Set at a Norwegian spa during the wintertime, the story is told in three acts, and charts the existential ruminations of professor and famed sculptor Arnold Rubek as he reunites with his former muse, Irene von Satow. Desperate to recapture the glory ... Read more

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  • A Doll's House

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Henrik Ibsen's three-act play "A Doll’s House" was first performed in 1879. The play was met with both incredible success and immediate criticism for its, at the time, highly controversial views on marriage and family. Whereas critics claimed "A Doll's House" threatened to dismantle traditional Victorian values, fans found its realistic, complex depictions of individuals and families relatable, ... Read more

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  • Love’s Comedy

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Henrik Ibsen is the great Norwegian playwright known of course for "A Doll’s House", "Hedda Gabler", "Ghosts" and "The Master Builder"."Love’s Comedy", bittersweet comedy written in 1862, is one of his earliest plays, released before "Brand and Peer Gynt"."Love’s Comedy" is considered Ibsen's first assured masterpiece, written in verse and in language loaded with vivid imagery and passion.Two ... Read more

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  • The Pillars of Society

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    First performed in 1877, "The Pillars of Society" was Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's first successful realist drama.Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and ... Read more

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  • Ghosts

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    "Ghosts" is a drama in three acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1881 in Norwegian as Gengangere and performed the following year. The play is an attack on conventional morality and on the results of hypocrisy."Ghosts" tells the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. "Ghosts ... Read more

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  • Heaven and Hell

    "Heaven and Hell" is Swedenborg’s most popular book and his fullest report of his experiences in the other world. In it he describes heaven, hell, and the world of spirits that lies between them.What happens to us when we die? Are heaven and hell real? If so, what are they like? "Heaven and Hell" contains the answers to these questions as seen by Swedenborg. ... Read more

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