Amsterdam University Press, 1996. — 157 p. After years of intensive research in archives throughout Europe and the U.S., the authors of The Art of Cloaking Ownership discovered that firms located in 'neutral' Sweden supported the Nazis' financial and industrial leadership. The case of Enskilda, a bank owned by the still powerful Wallenberg family, proved to be particularly...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 260 p. This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period. The authors discuss a range of behavioural responses (including tax planning, savings, labour supply, investment, etc.), and assess the overall effects on efficiency and equity. They...
Routledge, 2021. — 185 p. The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make...
Uppsala: Almqvist Wiksell, 1907. — 272 p. I hans ställe tog Johan över tronen som Johan III. När han blev kung blev han invecklad i ett krig mot Ryssland, nordiska tjugofemårskriget, vilket avslutades först 1595. Hans son, Sigismund, som även var kung i Polen, övertog makten 1592 men blev av med den till Karl IX 1599. Det ledde till ett krig mellan Sverige och Polen. När Karl...
Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2011. — 105 p. Drottning Hedvig Eleonora (1636-1715) fick som änka ett långt och verksamt liv. Hon överlevde inte bara sin make Karl X Gustav utan också sin son Karl IX och ingick i förmyndarregeringarna för både Karl XI och sonsonen Karl XII. Hedvig Eleonora har på senare år tilldragit sig ökat intresse bland forskarna, kanske...
Nordic Academic Press, 2012. — 265 p. Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are accompanied by prose renditions and commentary, making the work enjoyable reading for anyone...
Nova Science Publishers, 2021. — 307 p. The Swedes did not have a real feudal system, since their lands were not fertile enough for the peasants to spare more than a small portion of their crops in order to maintain the wellbeing of the nobility. Swedish peasants were mostly free and, in 1434, gained real political status. In 1471 a dispute occurred in Sweden and peasants and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. — 188 p. The idea of the 'Swedish model' has been a widespread and enduring concept in the social sciences since the 1930s, associated with the political dominance of the Social Democratic Party, peaceful social development and a tradition of political consensus. Taking this exceptionalism as their starting point, the essays in this volume...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 196 p. Through extensive analysis of the Swedish Armed Forces this study explores the possibilities and pitfalls of implementing of a gender perspective in military organizations and operations. It established a number of important lessons for similar attempts in other countries and discusses the continued process of implementation in the Swedish...
Aberjona Press, 2010. — 394 p. From the mud and bloody hell of Flanders to forlorn battles in Siberia and bitter street fighting to the very heart of Berlin 1945. From Africa to the Arctic, fighting men from a country frowned upon for its 'cowardly' neutrality participated in all the crucial battles of World War I and II. Their homeland was Sweden, which has enjoyed almost two...
Harvard University Press, 1954. — 350 p. Long respected as a classic in Europe, this translation is welcomed as the first comprehensive survey of Swedish economic history available in this country. Herein the late Eli Filip Heckscher discusses Swedish economy from the feudalism of the Middle Ages to World War II socialism. Complete coverage is given to such diverse yet...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 348 p. By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.
Bonnier, 2009. — 334 p. Historien om revolutionen 1809 och Sveriges räddning under några spänningsfyllda vårveckor är ett drama med både romantiska, tragiska, absurda och farsartade inslag. På våren 1809 var Sverige ett land i krig, i kaos och i upplösning. Ryssland hade erövrat Finland, tagit övre Norrland och landsatt trupper i Roslagen. Gustav IV Adolf satt fängslad och...
Finnish Literature Society, 2017. — 307 p. Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 316 p. Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish Enlightenment, royal absolutism, the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 275 p. Our corporeality and immersion in the material world make us inherently spatial beings, and the fact that we all share everyday experiences in the global physical environment means that community is also spatial by nature. This book explores the relationship between the seventeenth-century townspeople of Turku, Sweden, and their urban...
Uppsala University Press, 2007. — 428 p. This thesis analyses the relation between ship and society against a background of ideological and technological changes in Late Iron Age Sweden. It discusses the factors behind the development of 'a maritime society', why ships and seafaring came to play an important role that was also reflected in the use of the ship as a symbol and a...
Brepols, 2009. — 264 p. Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in...
Kersplebedeb, 2021. — 250 p. "In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrative capacity to establish and operate their own colonies. They had to ride the wave of the great colonial powers in order to enjoy the benefits offered by imperialism. There was no difference, however, between the Scandinavian countries and the great...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 354 p. This book empirically analyzes how a minority can succeed in having its way in a modern democracy. The author applies modern rational choice theory to examine such paradoxical triumphs in Swedish domestic politics over the past 100 years. Identifying Arrow's paradox, Prisoner's Dilemma, and other famous game-theoretic matrices, eight...
Brill, 2007. — 700 p. — (The Northern World 27). This book is the first treatment in English of the medieval Swedish kingdom in its formative period, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Scandinavian historical research on the subject and an analysis of all aspects of kingship and government.
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 320 p. There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its opponents on a battlefield. No better example...
Routledge, 2000. — 324 p. This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfare state.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 239 p. This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of the defendants and of the various accusations from neighbours and the...
Pantheon Books, 1972. — 220 p. Moberg, a contemporary writer very popular in Sweden, wants to insert into history the Swedish common man, the peasant, who for 5000 years has cleared that wooded, rocky, inhospitable land. But in this 1st of four volumes (which ends approximately 1400) the "samre folk," the lesser people, have barely a voice among the inchoate mass of anecdotes...
Pantheon Books, 1972. — 281 p. In the second volume of his vivid history of the Swedes, Vilhelm Moberg brings his focus on the common people to bear on a period that included two dramatic revolts: the national insurrection under Engelbrekt and the last desperate attempt of the Smaland peasantry to retain their medieval liberties - a defiance bloodily crushed by King Gustav...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 336 p. Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were built during periods of urban transformation; disdained for their rural look and for the fire hazard they represented they were...
Eken Press, 2021. — 79 p. Between the years 1560 and 1721, the Swedes endeavored to turn the Baltic Sea into a Swedish lake. Generations of young men perished in a seemingly endless series of wars. How was it possible for an insignificant country on the outskirts of Europe, with small cities and a scant population, to develop into a great power? Convinced that God was on their...
Nordic Academic Press, 2019. — 292 p. In the 1630s, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against the Holy Roman Emperor in the vicious, prolonged war between Protestant and Catholic states. But rather than agreeing to some higher purpose, what made the proposal tempting for the Swedes was money. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies of around...
Brill, 2019. — 348 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 89). Ten scholars offer a comprehensive introduction to one of the most celebrated visionaries of the Middle Ages. The essays focus on person of Birgitta as an author, the reception of her writings, and the history of her religious order. St. Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373) is one of the most celebrated female...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 365 p. This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sweden offered a different type of monarchy in comparison to the more often...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 340 p. What was it possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court society; and, ultimately, the...
McFarland and Company, 2007. — 308 p. For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms and scholarship. This book fills a large...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 737 p. The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics provides a state of the art analysis of political development in Sweden. Covering all essential aspects of politics in Sweden, this volume provides detailed accounts of policy making, governance, institutional arrangements, foreign relations, electoral behavior, the party system, the public...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 248 p. This book offers an original combination of cultural and narratological analysis with an empirical study of identity and political action. A powerful critique of rational choice theory, it also provides a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden intervened in The Thirty Years' War. Arguing that people act for reasons of...
University of Minnesota Press, 1980. — 528 p. The Road to Stockholm, 1758–1764. A Diplomatic Revolution, 1762–1764. The Overthrow of the “French System,” April 1764–January 1765. Lord Sandwich in Search of a Policy, 1765. The Caps and the Court, 1765.
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. King Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) dominated his age: he made Sweden the leading power of Northern Europe, was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War, and was a great administrator as well as a brilliant soldier. His toleration and reforms helped define the development of the modern state. This concise...
Longmans, Green and Company, 1953. — 598 p. In the first volume of this history of Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus, the narrative of events was carried down to the eve of the transference of the Polish War from Livonia to Prussia—a transference which led almost inevitably to the later intervention in Germany, and which was in a real sense the watershed of his reign. At the same...
Longmans, Green and Company, 1958. — 870 p. In the first volume of this history of Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus, the narrative of events was carried down to the eve of the transference of the Polish War from Livonia to Prussia—a transference which led almost inevitably to the later intervention in Germany, and which was in a real sense the watershed of his reign. At the same...
St. Martin's Press, 1973. — 324 p. Introduction. The Experience of Empire: Sweden as a Great Power. The Swedish Economy and Sweden’s Role as a Great Power, 1632-1697. Estates and Classes. The Swedish Church. Charles X and the Constitution. Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. The Reduktion. The Swedish Army, from Lützen to Narva. Bibliography. Notes and References. Notes on...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 243 p. After three-quarters of a century in which Sweden had been reckoned as one of the great powers of Europe, it fell almost overnight into the position of being one of the weakest. But if in international affairs this was a period of decrepitude, in domestic affairs it was a period of remarkable achievements. Between 1720 and 1772 Sweden had...
Cambridge University Press, 1968. — 532 p. This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. It is now available in paperback for the first time. The book includes a full account of the reign of Gustav Vasa (1523-1560), one of the greatest rulers of his age, and of the half-century...
Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 168 p. In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce...
Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 168 p. In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 254 p. Despite its enormous extent and impact, the Swedish scholarship produced in the context of Olof Rudbeck's monumental 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702) has hitherto escaped attention outside Scandinavia. The present volume explores the numerous disciplines that comprised this, one of the last, but grandest appropriations of the classical heritage...
Routledge, 2016. — 386 p. This volume brings together a group of scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who seek to present a more nuanced and elaborated picture of the Swedish cosmopolitan eighteenth century. Together they paint a picture of Sweden that is more like the one eighteenth-century intellectuals imagined, and help to situate Sweden in histories of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 439 p. In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the life of children and systems of governance in the early modern Swedish state....
Routledge, 2012. — 392 p. The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for sectors and branches covering the whole economy, even including estimates of non-marketed domestic work. It is also based on a broad literature from...
Books on Demand, 2016. — 93 p. En historisk sammanfattning om en av Sveriges största hjältar - Gustav II Adolf: Lejonet från Norden! Han var son till hertig Karl och Kristina av Holstein-Gottorp och således barnbarn till Gustav Vasa. Hans arvsrätt till kronan var dock inte självklar då speciellt Europas furstar och kungar inte ansåg hertigen från den kalla norden som Sveriges...
Perennial Press, 2018. — 468 p. Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. The War of Thirty Years, a long and terrible struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, largely influenced by the rivalry and bitter hostility...