Snuten i skymningslandet
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Snuten i skymningslandet

Snuten i skymningslandet är en svensk idé- och kulturhistoria 1965-2010 såsom den kommit till...

Animals and Humans
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Animals and Humans

Animals have always been an important part of the human life-world, and they stand out as...

Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-industrial Europe
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Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-industrial Europe

Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems, but also offered possibilities...

The Agrarian History of Sweden
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The Agrarian History of Sweden

This is the first comprehensive account in English of the agrarian history of Sweden from Neolithic...

Swedish and German Liberalism
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Swedish and German Liberalism

At the start of the twentieth century, political parties had the potential to focus grass-roots...

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Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on venereal disease in five Northern European countries, c. 1870 – c. 1995

Ida Blom

Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on venereal disease in five Northern European countries, c. 1870 – c. 1995

How did governments in the past act to stop the spread of venereal disease? Did legislation reflect medical opinion, and how did it treat the interests represented by women’s or homosexual organizations? How can similarities and differences in national legislation be explained? In Medicine, morality, and political culture the celebrated historian Ida Blom analyses the  Läs mer »

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Treasured memories: Tales of buried belongings in wartime Estonia

Mats Burström

Treasured memories: Tales of buried belongings in wartime Estonia

In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army advance. Most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be shortlived and they would soon be able to return home, so many of them hid the most valuable of their belongings they were unable to carry, burying them  Läs mer »