Books from Nordic Academic Press
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Treasured Memories: Tales of Buried Belongings in Wartime Estonia
By Mats BurströmTales of Buried Belongings in Wartime Estonia Mats Burström. Treasured memories Tales of buried belongings in wartime Estonia Nordic Academic Press Re tREAsuRED mEmoRiEs Treasured memories Tales of buried belongings in wartime.
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Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peacebuilding
By Hanne Fjelde, Kristine HöglundOne of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to stabilize and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars, and this book, which includes both theoretical discussions and empirical applications, ...
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Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peace-building
By Hanne Fjelde, Kristine HöglundIn yet other cases the outcome has been a partial implementation of peace where new conflicts have been generated in the process. In this book a group of experts discuss the conflictual dimensions of peace-building.
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Dygder och laster: förmoderna perspektiv på tillvaron
By Marie Lindstedt Cronberg, Catharina StenqvistDärefter stod folket hjälplöst med sina problem. 9 Neuhaus, 2009. 10 Neuhaus, 2009, s. 123, med hänvisningar till ... Malmø tingbøger, 1968, protokoll den 13 juli 1590, s. 309 samt 322. Den folkliga synen på sjukdom och magi har i ...
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Med polska ögon: Försvarsförmåga och hotbilder kring Östersjön i polsk militärrapportering 1919–1939
By Piotr Wawrzeniuk... återkomst på den geopolitiska arenan bedömdes ha stor betydelse då landet sågs som en balanserande makt mellan Tyskland och Ryssland i Östersjöområdet medan Finland och de baltiska staterna bedömdes vara för små och svaga för att kunna ...
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives
By Anders AndrénHere, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, time, and space in Old Norse religion can be studied in a dialogue between archaeology and the ...
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War Remains: Mediations of Suffering and Death in the Era of the World Wars
By Marie Cronqvist, Lina SturfeldtWar Remains: Mediations of Suffering and Death in the Era of the World Wars
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Echoes of the Holocaust: Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
By Klas-Göran Karlsson, Ulf Zander... Holocaust og antisemitismen”, Berlingske Tidende, November 15, 1978, and February 2, 1979, and Gert Glick, “De, der ... Efter 'Holocaust'”, Jydske Tidende Kolding Avis, February 4, 1979, and “De standheftige i TV”, Berlingske Tidende ...
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Making Cultural History: New Perspectives on Western Heritage
By Anna KällénThis volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, ...
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The Agrarian History of Sweden: From 4000 BC to AD 2000
By Janken Myrdal, Mats Morell... The Swedish imperial experience 1560–1718 (Cambridge). Robinson, David E. (2003), 'Neolithic and Bronze Age agriculture in southern Scandinavia: Recent archaeobotanical evidence from Denmark', Environmental Archaeology, 8, 145–65 ...
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Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Contexts: Socio-Cultural History and the Legacy of Egil Johansson
By Alison Mackinnon, Harvey J. Graff, Bengt Sandin... Alfabetizacion y cultura impresa en Lorca (1760–1860). Murcia: Universidad de Murcia. Marvin, Carolyn (1988) When Old Technologies Were New: inking About Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York:Oxford University Press ...
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Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations into the History of Knowledge
By Erling Sandmo, Johan Östling, David Larsson HeidenbladIn Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers address the burning issue of the day: the circulation of knowledge in social or scientific circles, and what happens to it when it is in motion.
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Forbidden Literature: Case Studies on Censorship
By Peter Henning, Jon Helgason, Erik ErlansonFreedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies.
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Culture Unbound: Americanization and Everyday Life in Sweden
By Tom O'DellExplaining the mechanisms behind the larger processes of globalization, modernization, and cultural imperialism, this book explores the realms of daily life in Sweden and how cultural impulses are actually integrated...
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Culture Unbound: Americanization & Everyday Life in Sweden
By Tom O'DellExplaining the mechanisms behind the larger processes of globalization, modernization, and cultural imperialism, this book explores the realms of daily life in Sweden and how cultural impulses are actually integrated in the lives of ...
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Global Care Work: Gender and Migration in Nordic Societies
By Lise Widding IsaksenUncovering some uncomfortable facts about new ethnic hierarchies, social class, and gender discrimination in these countries, this book is an essential read for those interested in migration, care work, and gender issues.
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Global Care Work: Gender and Migration in Nordic Societies
By Lise Widding IsaksenUncovering some uncomfortable facts about new ethnic hierarchies, social class, and gender discrimination in these countries, this book is an essential read for those interested in migration, care work, and gender issues.
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Cultural Transformations After Communism: Central and Eastern Europe in Focus
By Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Stala... Cultural formations of postCommunism: emancipation, transition, nation, and war, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Kochan, Jerzy (2008): (Nie)obecność Oświecenia, Nowa Krytyka. Czasopismo Filozoficzne, 13. Korek, Janusz (2007) ...
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Skärvor av 1900-tal: Arkeologiska essäer
By Mats Burström... J. Neufeld i The Rocket and the Reich. Peenemünde and the Coming ofthe Ballistic Missile Era (1995). Norska. kämpar. och. glömda. kvinnor. Texten publicerades ursprungligen som understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet 2014-04-21. Den bygger på ...
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The Value of Courage
By Per BauhnBauhn insists that courage is necessary for reinforcing people's understanding of themselves as autonomous agents, which is in turn necessary for countering widespread feelings of alienation and depression.