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This book explores the theme of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. The volume's fourteen chapters investigate how Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices. -- .

Vocal expressions in the borderland between song and speech in some Asian, and one Native American, cultures are studied through a new methodology which combines ethnomusicology and linguistics.

This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged at a remarkably early stage in postwar Sweden. It sheds new light on why Sweden took an early lead in global environmental politics and how the country came to host the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.

This book combines new approaches to Bergman's films and writings with more traditional analyses of widely acclaimed masterpieces like Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander. Most of the contributors are established Bergman specialists, and all of them provide challenging readings of the works of one of the world's most famous filmmakers.

Heritopia investigates the meanings of the past in the present, focusing on Abu Simbel in Egypt and other World Heritage sites. It explores and resolves a number of paradoxes: the past is impossible to preserve for eternity, all preservation implies change, preservation of one site normally means destruction of others, threats are important in the creation of heritage, but at the same time heritage may become a threat and threats can become he...

The fourth volume in the Acta Aethiopica series recovers and presents largely unknown original Ethiopian sources for how Ethiopian rulers dealt with the colonial endeavours of European powers in the first half of the 1880s. The texts are presented in facsimile as well as in English translation and supplied with scholarly notes.

In early modern Sweden, if a man and his deceased wife¿s sister were found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse they would be sentenced to death by beheading. Today the same relationship is not even illegal. Covering the period 1680-1940, this book analyses both incest crimes and applications for dispensation to marry, revealing the norms underpinning Swedish society's shifting attitudes to incestuous relations and comparing them with deve...

This book examines subsidies - payments made between sovereigns in return for political and military service - in the early modern period. It explores how such payments shaped diplomacy, princes' honour, the construction of states and early modern society.

This book assembles scholars from across the social sciences to explore how people and organisations deal with overflows - of information, goods or choices. It asks whether overflow is understood as abundance or excess, and looks at how it is addressed in different contexts, from sharing economies to health care administration.

Being exposed to large audiences as a villain is a life-changing experience. You may survive, but you will always bear the scars. This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It also contributes new perspectives on the fusion between news storytelling and gossip and rumour.

Winner of the 2019 Warburg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for an outstanding work of literary history 'Eric Pudney's book is a revisionary, incisive and accessible literary history of witchcraft in early modern drama that redefines both the terms and scope of the field: highly recommended.' Marion Gibson, Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, Unviersity of Exeter This is the first major stu...

This study shows how the Humboldt gave direction to debates around higher education in Germany and investigates the ways in which his ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs.

Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of 'groups' to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested. However, there seems to be a contemporary resurgence in this debate largely centred on their democratising potential: can groups effectively link citizens to political institutions and policy process...