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After the Deluge
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 35.00Robert Frost examines the reasons for the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Swedish invasion of 1655. more...
Identity, Interest and Action
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 34.00Critique of rational choice theory and original, cultural analysis of key historical problem. more...
Early Modern Women in the Low Countries
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, and combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves, how they were represented by... more...
The Ice Balloon
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer ?the most original and remarkable attempt ever made in Arctic exploration,?... more...
Iron Age Myth and Materiality
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 39.95Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the... more...
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea
BRILL 2008; US$ 147.00Drawing on historical, legal, literary, ethnographic and archaeological evidence, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the use, acquisition and perception of whales in the medieval Norse North Atlantic world. more...
Sea Dog Bamse
Birlinn 2011; US$ 9.29?One of the most charming, enterprising, and charismatic characters in the story of World War II? ? Jilly Cooper ?Prepare to read this fantastic story in one sitting. Very highly recommended? - Sea Breezes ?A well-researched, carefully crafted and hugely enjoyable account of one of the most remarkable animals to play a part in World War II? - Aberdeen... more...
Vikings in America
Birlinn 2012; US$ 12.67The first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia... more...
The Anglo-Swedish Alliance Against Napoleonic France
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 136.00This new study by Christer Jorgensen addresses a much neglected field of study in the history of Scandinavia and the greater Baltic region during the Napoleonic Age. The book concentrates upon relations and the alliance between Britain and Sweden during the middle years of the war; years that encompassed the Austerlitz campaign, the complicated diplomatic... more...
Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 144.95The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and America. Presenting the latest research on political culture in Scandinavia, this volume with twenty-seven contributions focuses on four key aspects:... more...









