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Early Kings of Norway
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99A fascinating look at some of the early Viking kings, such as Óláfr Tryggvason (Olaf the First), and Knut den Mektige (Canute the Great). Written by famed historian Thomas Carlyle. more...
Norsemen in the Viking Age
Wiley 2008; US$ 33.95This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these... more...
Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries
Nordic Academic Press 2010; US$ 47.99A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studiesfrom the Middle Age to the present timethat discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that many pasts existsometimes harmoniously... more...
Norway
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture - Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery - Maps reflect current political boundaries more...
Vom alten Norden zum neuen Europa: Politische Kultur im Ostseeraum
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010; US$ 85.20Hauptbeschreibung An dieser Festschrift zu Ehren Bernd Henningsens, des Vorreiters der politik- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Nordeuropaforschung in Deutschland und langjährigen Direktors des Nordeuropa-Instituts an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, haben 25 Kollegen, Weggefährten und Schüler aus sieben Ländern mitgewirkt. Die vertretenen Aufsätze... more...
Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d. 1412) - who acted as cultural mediators and initiators of political change. more...
Post-Cold War Identity Politics
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 55.95During the past decade northern Europe has started to assume an identity of its own. Categories of East and West have become blurred, challenging as well the idea of what it means to be Nordic. Post-Cold War Identity Politics maps this process in Scandinavia. Looking at projects designed to help regional development in the Nordic countires, it assesses... more...
Vikings in History
Routledge 1991; US$ 35.95The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. more...
Culture and Customs of Norway
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 50.00Norway is one of the world's largest oil-exporting nations. It is also one of the most progressive countries in the world, according to the Global Gender Gap Index, the Global Peace Index, and the Human Development Index. Yet, despite its outstanding culture, important economy, and spectacular beauty, Norway remains unfamiliar to most Americans. more...









