Blogg

  • Peter Snow: China and Russia. Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord

    Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four…

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  • Elaine Hsieh Chou: Disorientation

    Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never…

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  • Rosa Liksom: Älven

    Lapplandskriget 1944. Flickans pappa är ute i kriget som redan tagit hennes bröder och hennes gravida mamma har lämnat gården…

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  • Bengt Nyström och Annika Tegnér: Porslinsdrömmar – Ett oäkta Porcellains eller Faijance Wärk i Uppland 1755–1824

    I Vänge socken, och sedermera i Järlåsa, utanför Uppsala, låg en liten fabrik där man tillverkade fajans och flintgods långt…

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  • Nathalia Holt: Wise Gals. The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

    The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA –…

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  • Vermeer – The Rijksmuseum’s major exhibition catalogue

    ”Between 1664 and 1667, Vermeer created a set of paintings whose subjects ‘look us straight in the eye’. In this…

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  • Rowan Dorin: No Return. Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe

    Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils…

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  • Judith A. Green: The Normans. Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe

    A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England  …

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  • Fredric Bedoire: Stormaktstidens Norrmalm : Folk, hus och gator

    Med denna skildring av Norrmalms historia under 1600-talet lyfter Fredric Bedoire fram minnet av en förlorad stad som gick till…

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