Subjects:  1. Film & Video - Guides & Reviews    2. History    3. Motion pictures    4. Movie/Tv Tie-Ins    5. Pictorial works    6. Plots, themes, etc    7. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    8. Sweden    9. Films, cinema    10. Performing Arts / General   

Subjects:  1. African history: postwar, from c 1945 -    2. International relations    3. Oral history    4. Social Science    5. Sociology    6. Southern Africa    7. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    8. Third World Development    9. Social Science / Third World Development   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Elections    3. History    4. Political Process - Political Parties    5. Political Science    6. Political participation    7. Political parties    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Sweden   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Lutheran Church in the United States   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Castles    3. Domestic    4. History Of Architecture    5. Manors    6. Sweden   

Subjects:  1. Ancient - General    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Neolithic period - Sweden    6. Northern Europe, Scandinavia    7. Prehistoric archaeology    8. Social Science / Archaeology   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Art    3. Art, Modern    4. Art, Scandinavian    5. General    6. History    7. 20th century    8. Cultural studies    9. Denmark    10. Europe    11. Finland    12. History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600    13. History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900    14. Iceland    15. Norway    16. Painting & paintings    17. Sweden    18. c 1700 to c 1800    19. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. 1828-1906    2. 1849-1912    3. Drama    4. Film & Video - General    5. Film and video adaptations    6. Ibsen, Henrik,    7. Performing Arts    8. Performing Arts/Dance    9. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    10. Strindberg, August,    11. Swedish Drama    12. Television - History & Criticism    13. Television Plays And Programs    14. Film theory & criticism    15. Ibsen, Henrik    16. Literary Criticism & Collections / General    17. Norwegian    18. Plays & playwrights: 19th century    19. Strindberg, August    20. Swedish    21. Television   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. History    3. Inventors    4. Ljungström, Birger    5. Ljungström, Fredrik    6. Steam-turbines    7. Sweden   

Subjects:  1. Eastern Europe    2. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    3. Northern Europe, Scandinavia   

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An Ancient Relic
This was, sadly, the only biography my library had on Gustavus Adolphus. This book was originally published in 1904 as part of a "Heroes of Nations" biography series. This book is ironically more interesting in that it is, in itself, a better piece of history than its substance. The author reflects at one point on his era of world peace, and pleads with the reader to understand the alien concept of a war-torn Europe -- writing a decade before the outbreak of WWI, its most chilling to read today. Other references make you smile a litte: "...the current reigning House of Romanoff" "...what we today call the dual monarchy of Austro-Hungary." And a telling pro-German remark at the end, when the French recovery of Alsace and Lorraine was established at the end of the Thirty Years War, the author notes "...for another generation of heroes to recover." A frank endorsement of the events of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, in which the two provinces were annexed back to Germany (to be lost again to France after WWI).Read more

Subjects:  1. 1594-1632    2. Gustaf    3. Gustavus II Adolphus, 1611-1632    4. History    5. II, Adolf,    6. King of Sweden,    7. Sweden    8. Thirty Year's War, 1618-1648   

Subjects:  1. Automotive - Domestic - General    2. Automotive - History    3. Foreign Automobiles - History    4. Transportation   

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A Tribute To Ambassador Per Anger
Rarely do you have an opportunity to meet someone who has "made a difference in history." Ambassador Per Anger is just that sort of person.Elizabeth R. Skoglund touches on the thread that held peoplelikePer Anger, Rauol Wallenberg and others together while they tried to helpthose escaping the Holocaust. For us now, we too can "make adifference". ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th Century Diplomatic History    2. Austria & Hungary    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Diplomats    7. Historical - Holocaust    8. History    9. History Of Jews    10. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    11. Hungary    12. Jewish - General    13. Jews    14. Persecutions    15. Sweden    16. Anger, Per    17. Wallenberg, Raoul   

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Excellent, concise and informative!
Michael Roberts is perhaps the leading authority on Swedish history today, and this book is extremely well written. The writing style is clear, detailed and easy to understand; one is not bogged down in a slough of meaningless facts. What is brilliant about this book as well, is that Roberts carefully places Sweden and the actions of Gustavus in context with the events happening in Europe. It covers every aspect of Gustavus Adolphus and his reign; there are in-depth chapters on Gustavus' foreign policy, the domestic and important military reform that he carried out, the king as a person etc. Roberts has also painstakingly gone through many Swedish primary sources as well; the book is written by a historian who has definitely done all the hard work to get the facts right, and more besides.This is a book I would recommend without hesitation to anyone studying Swedish history. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1594-1632    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. General    4. Gustaf    5. Gustavus II Adolphus, 1611-1632-    6. History    7. History: World    8. II Adolf,    9. King of Sweden,    10. Scandinavia - History    11. Sweden   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Historical - General    6. Religious    7. Spirituality - General    8. Religion & Beliefs   

Subjects:  1. Historiography    2. Luther, Martin   

Subjects:  1. 1895-1948    2. Bernadotte, Folke,    3. Biography    4. Diplomatic History    5. Diplomats    6. History - General History    7. History: American    8. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949    9. Middle East    10. Sweden    11. Bernadotte, Folke   

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A Great Book to Learn the Basics of Poltava
This is a great book to learn all of the basic facts regarding the Battle of Poltava, and the results of the state of Europe afterward. An excellent, well written book
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Subjects:  1. 1682-1718    2. Charles    3. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    4. Europe - Scandinavia    5. History    6. History - Military / War    7. King of Sweden,    8. Military    9. Military - General    10. Military - Other    11. Poltava, Battle of, Poltava, Ukraine, 1709    12. XII,    13. History / Military / General   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Congresses    5. Europe, Western    6. History    7. Labor    8. Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions    9. Labor movement    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Working class    12. Business & Economics / Labor    13. Germany    14. Italy    15. Netherlands    16. Social history    17. Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies    18. Spain    19. Sweden    20. Trade unions    21. United Kingdom, Great Britain    22. Work & labour    23. World history: from c 1900 -   

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The Swabian Philosopher and the Seer of the North.
This beautifully written book describes the role of the theosophy of Emmanuel Swedenborg in the philosophy of Schelling.Schelling's reading of Swedenborg and his incorporation of Swedenborg's theology and notion of the "spirit world" into his own system are discussed.Schelling suffered immense pain with the death of the two women that he loved, including his wife.He was deeply troubled, and he sought out Swedenborg's writings, who allegedly had contact with the realm of spirits to comfort him.The existence of the realm of spirits and the special way by which Swedenborg was graced with knowledge of it raises many philosophical questions.Despite the fact that Kant had given Swedenborg a negative review in his _Dreams of a Spirit-Seer_ and thereby damaged his reputation, Schelling and others of a similar mind had gone back to Swedenborg's writings and examined his claims.Among these claims was that the souls of husband and wife were reunited in the afterlife.This meant that contrary to the traditional Christian view, gender was preserved in the afterlife.This idea was particularly comforting to Schelling.Also, Swedenborg claimed that the planets were inhabited by men and that Christ's redemptive act applied universally to all these inhabitants.This idea also was considered by Schelling.The book considers the unique role that the mind and spiritualism of Swedenborg played in the thought of Schelling.However, like many others Schelling eventually came to reject parts of the eschatology of Swedenborg because of it's "heretical content", that went against the orthodox view.While Swedenborg remains an unorthodox figure, many have come to consider him "the last of the Church fathers", endowed with a special gift.The book examines biblical and philosophical ways of assessing this gift of prophecy (especially in the letters of Paul).Whatever epistemic status may be assigned to his encounters with the spirt world, they certainly provide much interesting reading and a unique way of understanding the Christian message.This book provides an excellent introduction to Swedenborg and his influence upon Schelling, in his life and work.

An intelligent study of two philosophers
This book presents a detailed look at Friedrich Schelling's works and influences, namely Swedenborg.It studies how Schelling's philosophy changed throughout his life, while providing interesting background information about why these changes occured.The study is interesting and the personal information backs it up and keeps the reader hooked.This book is also helpful to those unfamiliar with Swedenborg's philosophical writings; it provides exerpts from the works being discussed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1688-1772    2. 1775-1854    3. History & Surveys - Modern    4. Influence    5. Mysticism    6. Philosophy    7. Philosophy Of The 19th Century    8. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm J    9. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von,    10. Swedenborg, Emanuel,    11. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von    12. Swedenborg, Emanuel