Scandinavia 7

The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen. The island nation of Iceland is known for many thingsーmajestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafoodーbut racial divers……続きを見る

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women’s role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women’s property rights, reveal……続きを見る

Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writingーwith 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spell……続きを見る

Hilarious tongue-in-cheek guide to the Danish "hygge" lifestyle. This book came about after a particularly hyggelig evening in December 2015. I had just lit my pleasing contemporary wood-burner and ……続きを見る

In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village ……続きを見る

The story of the Norse is a Viking adventure in history. The Norse saga began with the first ancient tribes of Norsemen during the Early Nordic Stone Age. The beginning of the Nordic Ax Culture when……続きを見る

The Story of the Vikings during the early Nordic Stone Age time period. The first ancient Norsemen. A span of some thousands of years concisely covering the evolution the Stone Age Norse people. A w……続きを見る

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design ……続きを見る

What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the co……続きを見る

The turbulent events that overtook Russia in 1917 are often called one of history's great turning points. In March of that year, a corrupt, outdated, careworn autocracy - the 300-year-old Romanov dy……続きを見る

To early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language……続きを見る

Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson,……続きを見る

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female cha……続きを見る

The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rølvaag's fictionalized heroine Bere……続きを見る

Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada be……続きを見る

Spells are conjured, herbs collected, and potions concocted in this fascinating history of the practices and beliefs of Norway's folk healers at home and in the New Land. *To cure a fever that begin……続きを見る

A collection of Civil War–era letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the gold fields of California and the mining camps of ……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Alread……続きを見る

In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northe……続きを見る

Who were the Norse gods the mighty Æsyr, led by Óðinn, and the mysterious Vanir? In The Norse Myths we meet this passionate and squabbling pantheon, and learn of the mythological cosmos they inhabit……続きを見る

Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that ……続きを見る

Grigori Rasputin, the "Holy Devil" of Russian legend, was a well-meaning peasant with a psychiatrist's gift for healing and unusual opportunities for sexual conquest. The tsar, historian E. M. Halli……続きを見る

"A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Adm……続きを見る

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of lit……続きを見る

A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known a……続きを見る

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in i……続きを見る

First novel from the winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize is about families, death, secrets, and failure. 続きを見る

A stylistically brilliant look at the male-dominated art world, madness, and identity. 続きを見る

The Poetic Edda is the single greatest legacy of the Viking people. An incomparable masterpiece of human literature. You will find here all the mythological and legendary poems from this enigmatic c……続きを見る

An Imperial colony on America's West Coast was Russia's aim. But, Pulitzer-Prize winner Allan Temko writes in this essay, the stakes were higher than they realized. 続きを見る