Historical Dictionary of Sweden - (Historical Dictionaries of Europe) 3rd Edition by Elisabeth Elgán & Irene Scobbie (Hardcover)

About the Book

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sweden contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, ...

Book Synopsis

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sweden contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sweden.

Review Quotes

It would be difficult to disagree with the remark of the authors on the first page of this dictionary that Sweden has had two claims to prominence in European history; first in her brief period of military glory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and second as the prototypical welfare state in the twentieth. Both these periods are well-represented in the book's 300 entries, between 20 and 2,000 words, which cover personalities (more than half the total number), places, parties and organizations, neighbouring countries and general subjects.

About the Author

Elisabeth Elgán is an associate professor of history at the Department of History at Stockholm University in Sweden. Her main field of research is Contemporary Political History and she is specialized in gender topics as well as in French History.

Irene Scobbie is one of Great Britain's leading specialists on Scandinavia. She is the author of the two first editions of the Historical Dictionary of Sweden.