Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199665672
The Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.
Author : Nevra Biltekin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800735897
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.
Author : Richard Bosworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108406406
War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.
Author : Tiina Kinnunen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004208941
Drawing on innovative scholarship on Finland in World War II, this volume offers a comprehensive narrative of politics and combat, well-argued analyses of the ideological, social and cultural aspects of a society at war, and novel interpretations of the memory of war.
Author : Pascal Lottaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1000402290
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 security concerns, the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden, militarily or economically. Nevertheless, Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality.
Author : Pontus Rudberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1351695770
"We will be judged in our own time and in the future by measuring the aid that we, inhabitants of a free and fortunate country, gave to our brethren in this time of greatest disaster." This declaration, made shortly after the pogroms of November 1938 by the Jewish communities in Sweden, was truer than anyone could have forecast at the time. Pontus Rudberg focuses on this sensitive issue – Jewish responses to the Nazi persecutions and mass murder of Jews. What actions did Swedish Jews take to aid the Jews in Europe during the years 1933–45 and what determined their policies and actions? Specific attention is given to the aid efforts of the Jewish Community of Stockholm, including the range of activities in which the community engaged and the challenges and opportunities presented by official refugee policy in Sweden.
Author : Mirja Österberg
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9185509493
How have the dramatic events of the Second World War been viewed in the Nordic countries? In this book leading Nordic historians analyse post-war memory and historiography. They explore the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war. How have national interpretations been shaped by official security-policy doctrines? And in what way has the end of the Cold War affected the Nordic narratives? The authors not only present the overarching themes that set the Nordic experience of the Second World War apart from other European narratives, but also describe the distinctive post-war characteristics of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Key concepts such as national identity, memory culture, and the moral turn are placed in their Nordic context. Bringing new nuance to the post-war history of Europe, this is the first work to focus on Nordic narratives of the war, and is valuable reading for students, academics, and all who have an interest in the historiography of the Second World War or modern European history.
Author : Johan Östling
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785331428
Sweden after Nazism -- Sweden after Nazism - Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 - Nazism and the Twentieth Century -- 2 - The Experience of Nazism -- 3 - Nazism as Stigma -- 4 - The Ideas of 1945 -- 5 - German Autumn -- 6 - The Lessons of Nazism -- Index
Author : Bengt Beckman
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780821828892
"The author, Bengt Beckman, for many years was the head of the cryptanalysis department of the Swedish signal intelligence agency. He has crafted a book that a reader at any level of mathematical sophistication will thoroughly enjoy. It will appeal to a broad audience of readers, from historians and biography buffs to mathematicians to anyone with a passing interest in cryptology and cryptanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Marianne Stecher-Hansen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789209625
Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.
