Presents brief historical information about Scandinavia as well as descriptions of the cultures of the people of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the area known as Lapland. Includes instructions for making craft projects representative of the people.
North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR--these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of Scandinavian life in the 1970s that ...
Surveying political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the region’s history, Scandinavia since 1500 is a comprehensive yet nuanced portrait of this unique region. [INSIDE BACK FLAP]Byron J. Nordstrom is professor of ...
A history of Scandinavia looks at the unique political, cultural, and economic development of the five countries as well as the factors which have unified the geographic region since Viking times
the Odyssey or the Iliad, inspired the 19th-century nationalistic surge in writing in Finnish, and is a continuing influence on literature, art and music. A contemporary of Lönnrot, Aleksis Kivi (1834–72) wrote the first proper Finnish ...
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture.
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Scandinavians is also a personal investigation, with award-winning author Robert Ferguson as the ideal companion as he explores wide-ranging topics such as the power and mystique of Scandinavian women, from the Valkyries to the Vikings; ...
From inflation and the shortage of consumer goods to widespread poverty and political unrest - not to mention the thousands of Scandinavian soldiers who participated in the war - this unique compilation 'analyzes the military and economic ...
In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious ...
The following list should give a clear indication of how and to what extent Poe has been published in Norway in recent years : Tre nifse noveller ( Three Gothic Tales ) ; 1970 Hjertet som sladeret og andre fantastiske fortellinger ...