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Rowing to Sweden
UNO Press 2010; US$ 9.99Rick Barton's first collection of nonfiction contends with an impressive range of cultural and political issues. These award winning essays display a keen and perceptive critical eye trained always on the zeitgeist, whether it's the 1960s, the political climate of the new millennium or anywhere between. more...
Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815
University of Minnesota Press 1982; US$ 51.00The 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...
The Viking World
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 52.95Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field, and the most comprehensive book of its kind ever attempted. 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...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great... more...
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...
National Relations
Nordic Academic Press 2012; US$ 41.99In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organization that was to improve the country?s reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden?s policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging peace-building, and with promoting foreign trade in... more...
It's True! The Vikings Got Lost
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 10.86The nineteenth title in the popular It's True! series, with jaunty illustrations by Binny Hobbs, this book paints the Vikings not only as fierce warriors and conquerors but as daring trader-explorers, law-makers and storytellers. 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...









