Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Nordic Countries

With an innovative analytic method that is yoked to a specially-built database of source materials, this book revises many received opinions about the history of gender and work in Europe. The applied verb-oriented method finds the 'work verbs' that appear incidentally in a wide variety of early modern sources and then analyzes the context in which they appear. By tying information...

Documenting a rich Scandinavian American culture and ethnic perspective

This notable collection of seventeen essays and six editorials by renowned Swedish American historian H. Arnold Barton was compiled from writings published between 1974 and 2005. The result of three decades of extensive research in the United States and Sweden, "The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America, "covers Swedish emigration to North America as well as the history and culture of Swedes in their new country.

In this rich mosaic of American ethnicity and cultural history, Barton analyzes the...

The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of diaspora . It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations.

Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared...

Mit der deutschen Besatzung der Staaten West- und Nordeuropas im Fruhjahr 1940 gerieten mehr als eine halbe Million einheimische und gefluchtete Juden unter deutsche Herrschaft. Anders als in Polen versuchten die Deutschen, die nichtjudische Bevolkerung und die Verwaltung fur die Kollaboration bei der Judenverfolgung zu gewinnen - mit unterschiedlichem, aber allmahlich wachsendem Erfolg.