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Raoul Wallenberg
Life and legacy
By Ulf Zander
The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Budapest between 1944 and 1945. He is recognised by the Israeli state as one of the Righteous ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1985-5780-0
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Pre-OrderReligious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries
Reason and orthodoxy
Edited by Johannes Ljungberg and Erik Sidenvall
This book explores the concept of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. It argues that Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1987-4040-0
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£25.00
Buy NowIn the borderland between song and speech
Vocal expressions in oral cultures
Edited by Håkan Lundström and Jan-Olof Svantesson
With Anastasia Karlsson, Siri Tuttle, Arthur Holmer, Inga-Lill Hansson and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen
This is a study of vocal expressions in the borderland between speech and song, based on performances from cultural contexts where oral transmission dominates. Approaches drawn from perspectives ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1985-5776-3
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£25.00
Buy NowThe environmental turn in postwar Sweden
A new history of knowledge
By David Larsson Heidenblad
The Stockholm Conference of 1972 drew the world's attention to the global environmental crisis, but for people in Sweden the threat was nothing new. Anyone who read the papers or watched the ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1985-5773-2
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£25.00
Buy NowIngmar Bergman
An enduring legacy
Edited by Erik Hedling
This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1985-5770-1
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£25.00
Buy NowColonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880-1884
Acta Aethiopica volume IV
Edited by Sven Rubenson, Amsalu Aklilu, Shiferaw Bekele and Samuel Rubenson
Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880-1884 is the fourth volume of Acta Aethiopica, a series that presents original Ethiopian documents of nineteenth-century Ethiopian history with English ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1984-6996-7
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£35.00
Buy NowHeritopia
World Heritage and modernity
By Jes Wienberg
Heritopia investigates the meanings of the past in the present, focusing on Abu Simbel in Egypt and other World Heritage sites. It explores and resolves a number of paradoxes: the past is ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1984-6993-6
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£25.00
Buy NowIncest in Sweden, 1680-1940
A history of forbidden relations
By Bonnie Clementsson
In early modern Sweden, if a man and his deceased wife's sister were found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse they would be sentenced to death by beheading. Today the same relationship is ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1984-6990-5
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£25.00
Buy NowSubsidies, diplomacy, and state formation in Europe, 1494-1789
Economies of allegiance
Edited by Svante Norrhem and Erik Thomson
This book examines early modern politics, diplomacy and finance by looking at the transfer of money and other resources between sovereigns in return for military or political service, often known ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1984-6983-7
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£25.00
Buy NowExposed
Living with scandal, rumour, and gossip
By Mia-Marie Hammarlin
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical materials from a Swedish context to highlight the ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1983-7683-8
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