Regional og nasjonal historie

Hvordan påvirket stormaktenes spill Finlands skjebne gjennom det turbulente 1900-tallet? I Finland – vår utsatte nabo forteller Morten Jentoft om landets vei fra borgerkrig i 1918, …

India's armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people's hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely …

I 1919 blir Norge og Sverige enige om å begrense hvor mye rein som får flytte over grensen, den norske staten vil ha utmarka til sine egne. Med det innledes flyttingen av et stort …

Hippolyte Taine's fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France, an effort to understand the France of his day. The Ancient R gime …

A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven …

How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of ZionismIn the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state …

Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins …

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold …