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Changing Pictures
Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 38.00This volume derives from a workshop held at the University of Kalmar (now Linnaeus University), Sweden between the 20-24 of October 2008. The aim of this gathering was to provide a forum for rock art researchers from different parts of northern Europe to discuss traditional as well as current interpretative trends within rock art research. Changing... more...
The Rock Art of Norway
Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 30.00For thousands of years people in all parts of the world have engraved images on rock panels and stones. Images are found on large, earth bound boulders, on smaller, movable stones or on rock panels in burial chambers. A variety of images are conveyed, including people, animals, objects used by humans, abstract patterns and objects unrecognisable to... 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...
Economic History of Sweden
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95Based upon comprehensive and original research, An Economic History of Sweden represents an invaluable resource for both economic historians and students of economic theory. more...
Nordic Social Policy
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95By focusing on developments in the Nordic welfare states during the past decade, Nordic Social Policy provides new insights into the evolution of welfare state measures and generally assesses the peoples health in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. This comparative work includes chapters on *the changed preconditions of welfare policies *changes... more...
Prehistory of Denmark
Routledge 1983; US$ 80.00This synthesis of archaeological research in Denmark divides into four sections: the hunters and gatherers; the first farmers; towards a new era; and the chiefdoms of the Iron Age. more...
Finland in the Second World War
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00This book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them. In the Winter War of 1939-1940 Finland successfully fought off a Soviet invasion. Then, with none to turn to but Germany, it became the only democratic state on the Axis side. Ultimately,... more...
Finland
Intercultural Press 2004; US$ 29.95Finland is one of the developed world?s best-kept secrets. This small, cold, and isolated country of the north ?leads the world in various fields of technology, network readiness, global competitiveness, research and creativity, . . . enrollments in universities and colleges, empowerment of women, and sustainability of the environment. more...
An unofficial alliance
BRILL 2003; US$ 171.00Grosjean (The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen) began her study to look more deeply into the few high-profile Scots who migrated to Sweden during the 17th century and became marauding mercenaries, wealthy merchants, and distinguished noblemen. She found a very different story, hidden by a confusion of national labels that more...
Texts & contexts of the oldest Runic inscriptions
BRILL 2003; US$ 204.00This work gathers all older fufark inscriptions found in Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Bosnia, Rumania, Norway and Sweden. It includes essays on early runic writing, the contexts of runic objects, and a theory on the origin of runic writing. more...









