Essays in Swedish History
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Sweden
ISBN :
Essays in Swedish History
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Sweden
ISBN :
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Essays on Scandinavian History
Author : H. Arnold Barton
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0809328860
Book Description
"In addition, Barton reappraises the reign of Gustav IV Adolf and the succession crises of 1809-10. He examines the increasing tension between the Pan-Scandinavian movement and the rising Finnish national movement. He deals with the historians of the Danish Agrarian Reforms of 1784-1814, parallel developments in Finland and Norway between 1808 and 1917, the discovery of Norway abroad, Swedish national romanticism, and Sweden's transition from a warfare state to a welfare state, exemplifying the rational and humane ideals of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Sweden as a Great Power 1611-1697
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : London : Edward Arnold
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
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200 Years of Peace
Author : Nevra Biltekin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800735897
Book Description
Since 1814 Sweden has avoided involvement in armed conflicts and carried out policies of non-alignment in peacetime and neutrality during war. Even though the Swedish government often describes Sweden as a ‘nation of peace’, in 2004 the 200-year anniversary of that peace passed by with barely any attention. Despite its extraordinary longevity, research about the Swedish experience of enduring peace is underdeveloped. 200 Years of Peace places this long period of peace in broader academic and public discussions surrounding claimed Swedish exceptionality as it is represented in the nation’s social policies, expansive welfare state, eugenics, gender equality programs, and peace.
The 1912 Stockholm Olympics
Author : Leif Yttergren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 147660066X
Book Description
King Gustaf V of Sweden inaugurated the Fifth Olympiad at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm on July 6, 1912. In the following weeks, 2,380 competitors from 27 nations representing six continents participated in well-organized competitions in perfect weather conditions. The largest Olympics yet at the time, the Stockholm Games have thus gone down in history as the Sunshine Olympics, or "the Swedish Masterpiece." Since that achievement, and despite numerous attempts by other Swedish cities, Sweden has not yet managed to host the Olympic Games again. This work examines the 1912 Stockholm Olympics from a variety of perspectives, exploring the preparations, organization, competitions, participants, and spectators, as well as the continuing significance of the 1912 Games to Sweden and to the future of the Olympic movement.
Encyclopedia of the Essay
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135314101
Book Description
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1984-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521278898
Book Description
In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a militarized society? What importance had official propaganda and national myths? Did the constitutional situation help to make an expansionist foreign policy easier? The structure of the empire is next examined: its administration, the ties that held it together, the differing interests of the provinces, the varying responses of the metropolitan power was there, in fact, anything deserving the name of an imperial policy? How did the provinces view the Swedish connexion? In a final chapter the author tries to answer the question why, if Sweden could acquire an empire without undue strain, she could not retain it; why the collapse was so rapid and so total; and whether her career as a great power had real relevance to the country's subsequent history. On almost all these topics little information is available in English, and no comparable treatment of them on this scale exists in any language.
Made in Sweden
Author : Alf Björnberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1134858507
Book Description
Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of twentieth-century Swedish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Swedish popular music and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of pop music in Swedish. Although the vast majority of the contributors are Swedish, the essays are expressly written for an international English-speaking audience. No knowledge of Swedish music or culture will be assumed. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Swedish popular music; each section features a brief introduction by the volume editors. The book presents a general description of the history and background of Swedish popular music, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Historical Development of the Swedish Popular-Music Mainstream; The Swedishness of Swedish Popular-Music Genres; Professionalization and Diversification; and Swedish Artist Personas. Contributors: Jonas Bjälesjö Alf Björnberg Thomas Bossius Peter Dahlén Olle Edström Karin L. Eriksson Rasmus Fleischer Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius Lars Lilliestam Ulf Lindberg Morten Michelsen Susanna Nordström Marita Rhedin Henrik Smith-Sivertsen Ann Werner Kajsa Widegren
A Concise History of Sweden
Author : Neil Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521812844
Book Description
A comprehensive history of Sweden covering events from the Stone Age onwards.
