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Mamsell Bohmans fall
(2019)
"One summer day in Stockholm in 1747, the carpenter's daughter Lena Cajsa Bohman faces trial for disobedience to her father. Soon, she admits to more serious crimes. A tangle of trafficking of young women is revealed. It ...
Renegater
(2019)
"This study focuses on two Swedish politicians, Nils Flyg and Sven Olov Lindholm. During the interwar era, they were both leaders of various Swedish political parties; in the case of Flyg the Swedish Communist Party, and ...
Naturvetarna, ingenjörerna och valfrihetens samhälle: Rekrytering till teknik och naturvetenskap under svensk efterkrigstid
(2016)
"Scientists, engineers, and a free-choice society is a book about control, largely the governing of children and young people in Sweden and the efforts made to persuade them to choose careers—and identities—in science and ...
Making the invisible visible
(2019)
"As film stars, actresses have throughout film history contributed to the film industry’s glamorous surface, providing audiences with visual attraction and different representations of femininity. To talk about women in ...
Romanistiken i Sverige
(2019)
The Romance languages are the Indo-European languages developed from Latin. The term "Romance Languages" also refers to the academic discipline, which studies the Romance languages and literature from the areas where the ...
Den nordiska hushållsstaten
(2025)
Martin Luther's concept of society as a household, ruled by parents, established a model of social organisation that would become important in the Nordic countries in the 17th and 18th centuries. With the dismantling of ...
Istället för äktenskap
(2018)
"The 20th century is sometimes said to be the century of the family farm. Although the countryside changed fundamentally, the farming family - consisting of husband, wife and children - is often seen as intact. However, ...
Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture
(2016)
"The study of affect has become a dynamic field spanning a range of disciplines from psychology over neuroscience to philosophy and cultural studies. Little attention however has been payed to material culture. This book ...
Det villrådiga samhället
(2020)
The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brought together scientists and scholars contributing to a wide spectrum of areas, encompassing nature as well as society. But ...
Framtidens kvinnor
(2021)
The future woman – what would she be like? And what would be her place in society? These questions were explored through stories about girls’ upbringing and education in nineteenth and early twentieth century literature ...
Movement of knowledge
(2020)
Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, ...
“MY DEAR, CLOSE AND DISTANT FRIEND”
(2021)
Nina Berberova (1901–1993) almost appears to have lived several lives. First, she was a young writer in the revolutionary Russia. Then she witnessed the hectic 1920s in Berlin and achieved her literary breakthrough in ...
The Archaeologist In-Between
(2021)
Olov Janse was an archaeologist with a remarkable life. From his birth in Sweden 1892 to his death in the United States 1985, he travelled several times across the world and was present in some of the most important episodes ...
Den gröna vändningen
(2021)
The Stockholm Conference 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis. To the inhabitants of Sweden, however, this threat to the planet and to humanity was nothing new. Anyone who regularly read ...
Theodore Metochites’ Sententious Notes
(2018)
"This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai (""Sententious notes"") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332).
The introduction ...
Didactic classroom studies
(2018)
"In the anthology Didactic classroom studies. A potential research direction didactic classroom studies are characterized and discussed in relation to, on the one hand, didactics and, on the other hand, classroom studies. ...
Lagerlöfs läsare
(2022)
This book investigates a unique collection of letters: the many thousands of letters to Selma Lagerlöf from the public. During 1891 to 1940 people from all layers of society wrote to the famous author about their lives, ...
De samhällsbesvärliga
(2019)
"In inter-war Sweden, the psychiatric diagnosis of psychopathy served as a controversial but powerful tool for the management of people who failed to live up to contemporary civic ideals. The diagnosis was based on theories ...
Riksäpplet
(2017)
"Riksäpplet deals with a shipwreck that has a neglected position in the grand narrative of the history of the Swedish navy. The story of its destiny and the missing accounts in scholarly and popular works in history says ...
Methods in World History: A Critical Approach
(2016)
"Interest in world history has never been greater—both among historians and the reading public. Globalization has coaxed historians out of their fixation on all things national, which has characterized historical research ...
DJUR
(2019)
In this volume of studies, Animal: Moments of Affect, Moments of Pain, eight ethnologists apply a cultural perspective to people’s varied and complex relationships with other species. The contributions focus on wild animals, ...
Tid att städa
(2018)
"Cleaning is central to all societies. It is an experience shared by almost everyone. A clean home is related to both respectability and status. The mere execution of the deed – whether it concerns taking care of other ...
Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome: Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60
(2016)
"A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes”), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). ...
Medeltidens genus: Kvinnors och mäns roller inom kultur, rätt och samhälle. Norden och Europa ca 300–1500
(2016)
"In discussions relating to their role during the Middle Ages, women are typically assumed to only have been “pawns in a political game dominated by men”, or to have primarily acted as intermediaries of power. In this book, ...
War Remains
(2018)
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narratives of war deaths and suffering in the era of the world wars. In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million ...
Efter Tegnér
(2018)
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was for a long time considered not only Sweden’s foremost poet but also a national symbol, an author who defined the characteristics of Swedish culture. Tegnér’s status as the national poet has ...
Tsangnyön Herukas sånger
(2018)
"The core of the book is a complete annotated translation of the collected ‘religious poetry’ (Tibetan: mgur) of the Tibetan yogin Tsangnyön Heruka (gTsang smyon Heruka, 1452–1507). The book also contains a translation of ...
Berättelser om det förbjudna: Begär mellan kvinnor i svensk litteratur 1900–1935
(2016)
"Same-sex love was forbidden by law until 1944, and in culture it continued to be taboo, but it has always existed there. The prohibition created tensions which art and literature could play with. Narratives about forbidden ...
Nelly Thüring
(2024)
”All I have strived for during this school day – that an earthly life amounts to – has been to do my utmost to promote the realization of human brotherhood on our little Earth.” This is how Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), at ...
Se hennes öde
(2023)
During the 1920s and 1930s the wordless novel – stories told in black-and-white wordless woodcuts – was established as a narrative genre. The genre was most popular in Germany, but was as well known in other parts of Europé ...
I kalla krigets spår
(2023)
Medeltidens genus
(2016)
Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome
(2016)
A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes"), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). ...
Från trälar till tjänstefolk
(2023)
Att fästa sig vid staten
(2024)
The expression ""to attach oneself to the state"" is a paraphrase for entering into marriage: when a man married, he was also considered to attach himself to the state and become a cog in a larger context. Marriage was ...
Barnavård till salu
(2024)
This book addresses the child care market existing before and in parallel with Swedish welfare state’s public welfare for children, 1900–1975. The focus is on commercial maternity homes where unmarried mothers could give ...
Frihetsretorik och marknadslogik
(2024)
In Frihetretorik och markandslogik Johanna Ringarp investigates the impact that market liberal ideas have had on Swedish universities. The focal point is the political reforms in education during the 1990s, which were put ...
Från trälar till tjänstefolk
(2023)
Servants were for a long time the dominant form of labour in Sweden. To serve, at a farm or at a manor, was ever since the thirteenth century the most common way to make a living, since poor people could by law be forced ...
I kalla krigets spår
(2023)
Cultural heritage is not just something from the past, but always also reflects contemporary needs and desires. In the Traces of the Cold War describes the making of a diverse and innovative Swedish military heritage. The ...
Sveriges avrasifiering
(2023)
The deracialization of Sweden is a research anthology that examines issues of race, racism, anti-racism and whiteness in a Swedish post-war and contemporary context. The anthology consists of 13 studies written by authors ...
Markernas kronologi och ideologi i norra Sverige
(2023)
Narratives about northern Sweden are often narratives about nature. This has been true throughout history and is still true today. Different ways of understanding nature have become intertwined with the place and the people ...
En villkorad gemenskap
(2023)
Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and queer have long been a sensitive topic in Christian churches. As society has changed, some denominations have become increasingly affirming, while others see the changes as ...
Samvete i Sverige
(2021)
In recent years, ideas of conscience and the liberty of conscience have become ever more salient in public discourse. Historically, these concepts have been used to mark out a certain scope of freedom and protection in ...
Craft Sciences
(2022)
The field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research conducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This anthology aims to expose the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and ...
Under beredskap och krig
(2022)
Military preparedness and war have so far been regarded as the domain of male authors in Swedish literature, especially at the time of the Second World War. But what happens if we turn our attention to the female authors ...
Ojämlika arbetsplatser
(2021)
In this research anthology, inequality in Swedish working life in a Sweden marked by increased inequality, is studied. Racialised inequality, racism and discrimination in individual workplaces are focused, but inequalities ...
Liv i rörelse
(2022)
During the first half of the twentieth century, the industrialization of Sweden was completed. A substantial proportion of the population resided in cities. What did the life courses of these people actually look like? In ...
Varför ökar den offentliga byråkratin i Sverige?
(2025)
A well-functioning bureaucracy is very important, but in Sweden there are clear signs that bureaucratization is taking place - that there are too many personnel who govern, administer and control operations rather than ...
Humanister i offentligheten
(2022)
There is a strong narrative on how the humanities were marginalized in postwar Sweden: in the land of engineers, technocrats and social scientists, there was no room for erudition, philosophy and history. This book challenges ...
Att göra klass
(2022)
How is class depicted in Swedish contemporary literature, and what can it teach us about contemporary society? In Doing Class, literary scholar Åsa Arping tries new pathways into the broad, mainly realistic Swedish novels ...
Populating the Future
(2023)
Speculative fiction opens doors for imagining beyond what is possible, conventional or acceptable. Speculative fiction has an acute ear for the social, the scientific and for political developments and change, all of which ...
Den engagerade reportern
(2024)
Social reportages are written by reporters who fight for the weak and expose injustices. So it is said in the profession, in handbooks and among the genre’s supporters. But what is hidden behind the ideal? And what does ...
Humaniora i välfärdssamhället
(2023)
This book highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, ...
Vetenskapen som försvann?
(2023)
It is well known that Sweden once had a state institute for racial biology, as well as that extensive racial research was conducted in Sweden during the first decades of the 20th century. But what actually happened to ...
Politiskt aktörskap i en omvandlingstid
(2024)
In the anthology Politiskt aktörskap i en omvandlingstid the reader meets ten people who in one way or another acted politically in the decades around the turn of the last century. Members of Parliament such as Nelly Thüring ...
Hälsinglands inredningskultur
(2021)
This anthology is a conclusion of the research results from a four-year VR project called Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland - a holistic study of a World Heritage (2014–2017). Decorative painted interiors and furniture ...
Birgittinerna och deras bilder
(2021)
This study investigates the pictorial world of the medieval Vadstena Abbey church. The interior of the church was filled with altars and images that had the three separated groups of viewers in mind: the 60 nuns, the 25 ...
Med tvål, vatten och flit
(2021)
With soap, water, and diligence discusses attitudes and practices around cleanliness and health at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At this time, scientific findings on how diseases spread had rendered ...
Bakom stadens kulisser
(2021)
In this book, researchers from different disciplines take the reader on a stroll among forgotten, hidden and exposed rooms in 19th and 20th century’s Stockholm. Confectioneries and kitchen entrances, brothels, shop windows ...
Forbidden Literature
(2020)
"Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today just as in the ...