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The Evolution of Nordic Finance
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 115.00The book describes the birth and growth of financial institutions and stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Finland from 1656 to 2010, including their banking crises and the history of banking regulation. It argues that quantitative regulations cannot, in the long run, produce the desired results and bear the seeds of future financial crises. more...
Democracy and Citizenship in Scandinavia
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 185.00Major changes in citizenship and democracy have taken place in Scandinavia within the last two decades. Participation in conventional forms of politics has declined markedly, and the ability of institutions such as political parties and trade unions to deliver social mobility is being eroded. Instead, Scandinavians are turning towards single issue... more...
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
Nordic Academic Press 2006; US$ 67.99Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings... more...
Britain, Sweden and the Cold War
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 148.00Juhana Aunesluoma considers the ways in which Scandinavia's, in particular neutral Sweden's, relationship was forged with the Western powers after the Second World War. He argues that during the early cold war Britain had a special role in Scandinavia and in the ways in which Western oriented neutrality became a part of the international system. New... more...
The CNN Effect in Action
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area. more...
Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815
University of Minnesota Press 1982; US$ 51.00Letters from the Promised Land
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 57.00H Arnold Barton has contributed to Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840- 1914 as an author.H. Arnold Barton, professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, is the author of "The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga, "and "Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815. more...
Analecta Septentrionalia
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00Compared to other medieval philologies, the particular nature of the literature of the North, and in particular of Iceland, has always meant that the study of Old Norse languages must be interdisciplinary and rely on methodical variety. This volume, published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the Munich old Norse scholar, Kurt Schier, contains... more...
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 44.00An edited volume studying Christianization in northern and central-eastern Europe from c. 900-1200. more...
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swedes
Oval Guides 2008; US$ 4.36A guide to understanding the Swedes that takes the chill out of their cool exterior and reveals the warmth of their inner selves. more...









