Ten Swedes Must Die
How can he forget the past when it's out to kill him? Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past-if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow ope...
Swedes in Canada
Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr's Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost...
Björn Borg and the Super-Swedes
Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Björn Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with eight million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide. It starts with the legend...
Mercenary Swedes- French Subsidies To Sweden 1631-1796
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. Both countries goal was to limit the Empire s expansion, and the Swedes needed funds. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies of about 400,000 Swedish riksdaler every year for five years a vast sum. This agreement was the first in a long line of deals between France and Sweden until 1796, which meant 166 years of intermittent support. In some years French subsidies amounted to a startling 20 per cent of the Swedish national budget. But how did the two countries manage to remain allies despite their abiding mutual mistrust? The historian Svante Norrhem charts the patterns of relations between the two countries in this wide-ranging study. With his skilful command of the international archival material he examines the reasons for the pact and the mutual dependency it led to. Norrhem discusses the motives and effects of the French subsidies. What about Sweden s honour, for example? To be so dependent on another state could signal that it was less than scrupulous In the end, the collaboration also had a profound impact on the Swedish state and society, and to some extent on France politics, territory and reputation were all at stake
United Stockholms Of America - The Swedes Who Stayed
Fotografen Charlie Bennet har rest runt till alla Stockholm i USA. Hans bilder fångar den vackra men samtidigt öde och ensamma själen i dessa avbefolkade orter. Vissa av dem kommer snart att vara borta. Stockholm i Iowa dog till exempel mer eller mindre ut när järnvägen lades om. I Stockholm i Maine finns det däremot en stark svensk förankring.Visste du att Stockholm är en avfolkningsort som lever upp på söndagarna när kyrkan kallar? Eller att Stockholm har arrangerat VM i flipperspel? Av ett annat Stockholm finns bara en kyrkogård kvar, tillsammans med minnet av en utsatt koloni solsvedda svenskar i södraste Texas.Det finns hundratals platser med svenska eller svenskklingande namn i USA och minst åtta Stockholm. Svenskheten på dessa platser varierar kraftigt och på vissa orter är det endast efternamnen som antyder att utvandrade svenskar en gång i tiden hade inflytande. Andra vårdar sitt svenska arv med ömhet och stolthet, fast med amerikansk accent. Alla är unika och skiljer sig fullständigt från den svenska huvudstad som de en gång döptes efter. De Stockholm som finns med i boken ligger i Iowa, Maine, New York State, New Jersey, South Dakota, Minnesota, Texas och Wisconsin och självklart Stockholm, Sverige. Boken ges även ut på svenska; United Stockholms of America : Svenskarna som stannade
Lagom : the very unofficial guide to the Swedes - from A-Z and beyond
En bok med korta notiser/avsnitt om Sverige och svenskarna i bokstavsordning. Detta är en uppfräschning och modernisering av upplagan som gavs ut 2003. Den har en lättsam ton, kanske till och med humoristisk i vissa delar, men innehåller fakta och...
Living Simultaneity : on religion among semi-secular Swedes
Semi-secular individuals, those who are neither religious nor unreligious, seldom get the attention of scholars of religion. Here, however, they stand at the center. Th e interviewees live in the same Stockholm neighborhood and it is their ways of talking about and relating to religion that is analyzed and described. Simultaneity is one particular feature in the material. This concept emphazises a ‘both and’ approach in: the way the respondents ascribe meaning to the term religion; how they talk
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