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| HISTORIKEREN CASPAR PALUDAN-MÜLLER [Mads Mordhorst & Jes Fabricius Møller] Text in Danish. Caspar Paludan-Müller was among the principal historians of 19th century Denmark. His writing was begun in 1831 and ended fifty years later. It reflects the thinking of the period and the changing views of history in the 19th century. His point of departure was the conception of the world of the golden age, a synthesis of Christianity and critical science, which he tried to maintain throughout his life. Caspar Paludan-Müller’s conservatism resulted in a conflict with the men of the Modern Breakthrough, and they, in turn, have left their mark on his reputation so that posterity has received the impression that he was a provincial and starry-eyed historian. The book, however, shows that he was much more than that. { 344pp, 155x230mm, October 2005; HB, £37.50, 8772897384:9788772897387 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ILLERUP ADAL -- ARCHAEOLOGY AS A MAGIC MIRROR [Jørgen Ilkjær] This work about the excavations in Illerup Adal in Eastern Jutland tells the story of the Scandinavian regions at the time when the Romans were guarding their boundaries towards the north. This is the story about the background and preconditions for the Viking campaigns of later times. Even though the Romans did not reach further north than Northern Germany in their attempts at colonisation, the Scandinavian region was in any case strongly influenced by Roman culture, but the absence of settlements means that there are no Roman baths, fortresses, villas or bridges to be found. We have to be content with Roman weapons, glass and pots and vessels. The archaeological finds from Illerup Adal tell the Scandinavian story, providing evidence about events that were not reported in writing as they happened. The story is revealed by large-scale sacrifices of weapons and army equipment from the first half millennium AD. A victorious defender of his native territory turned over the spoils of war in gratitude for the victory of the battlefield. the Illerup book describes 18 years of excavation in the peat-bog in Eastern Jutland and the equally extensive research which followed. Among the 15,000 excavated objects there are finds of the most advanced weapons of the time, namely the two-edged Roman sword. Exceptionally fine shields, painted red and with gold and silver mounts, show the status of prehistoric Scandinavian kings, and the Illerup find's 10 runic inscriptions tell of a Nordic society where some could read and write as a result of intensive and direct contact with the higher levels of contemporary Roman culture. { 152pp, 215x280mm, October 2002; HB, £18.95, 8787334372:9788787334372 , Aarhus University Press } |
| INDUSTRIOUS CHILDREN : Work & Childhood in the Nordic Countries, 1850-1990 [Ning de Coninck-Smith, Bengt Sandin & Ellen Sandin (eds)] Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good childhood -- that children actually work. Children ought to spend their time playing and attending school. The historians' interest has focused on industrial child labour -- its emergence and its disappearance. But relatively few children worked in industry. Far more children were employed in agriculture and retail trade, if they did not help at home or at the neighbour's. Sometimes they received pay -- other times not -- and they often worked on the edge of the law. The articles in this book examine children's work from the mid-1800's and until the 1990's, because children's work is not a closed chapter in history. But the character and social function of the children's work have been changed over time. This anthology is the result of an inter-Nordic research project about children's work in the Nordic countries involving all the five Nordic countries. { 211pp, 180x260mm, January 1997; HB, £23.30, 8778382696:9788778382696 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| INDUSTRY & MODERNISM : Companies, Architecture & Identity in the Nordic & Baltic Countries During the High-Industrial Period [Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna (eds)] For post-war Europe, industrial production and its methods of rationalisation and modernisation were adopted as a model for societies more generally. To replace the nationalism of the 1930s that had led to a catastrophe, universal values and technologies were seen as important. Modernism in architecture was both an instrument to realise these goals and the symbol of modern society. Modernism meant technological progress, economic security, relative political stability and social equality, that is, what being European was about. In the book "Industry and Modernism", the meaning of industrial production is discussed particularly in the context of the Nordic and Baltic post-war histories. The polarities of the Cold War suppressed similarities between the two worlds such as the shared belief in the power of architecture, planning and technology to construct new societies. For many western European countries, Nordic countries represented a model of the welfare state, just as Baltic countries were seen as models within the Soviet hegemony. In the book, economic and social history is integrated with business history, architectural history, and the study of industrial heritage. { 402pp, 180x260mm, December 2007; PB, £23.50, 9517469365:9789517469364 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| LEARNING ACTIVITY & DEVELOPMENT [Mariane Hedegaard & Joachim Lompscher (eds)] The idea that children's learning is influenced by economic, political, ecological, cultural and other influences is being focused upon by educators world-wide. The editors of this volume point out that there is a huge amount of scientific knowledge from different disciplines that could be a basis for the necessary changes in teaching and learning both in and out of school, on different educational levels and under different institutional conditions. The editors define learning activity as a special kind of activity directed towards the acquisition of societal knowledge and skills through their individual reproduction by means of special learning actions upon learning objects. Learners can acquire skill and knowledge, they add, only by actively acting with the material according to its substance and structure, and through the co-ordination, communication and co-operation between learners and other people since that is one of the most essential features of learning activity. The book explores how learning proceeds. "Societal forms of thinking and knowledge" considers the interdependency between the societal traditions of production, science, art an public life and personal thinking modes and knowledge. "Teaching, learning activity in theory and practice" explores the relation between content of knowledge, teaching and learning activity. "Social interaction, development of motives and self-evaluation" examines the core aspects of learning activity. "Play, spontaneous learning and teaching" looks into the transition from pre-school to school and the transformation of activities as preconditions for children's learning activity. { 332pp, 180x260mm, March 1999; HB, £22.95, 8772888156:9788772888156 , Aarhus University Press } |
| MEALS IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT : Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic & Roman World, 2nd Edition [Hanne Sigismund Nielsen & Inge Nielsen (eds)] This collection of outstanding essays gives an in-depth look at the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. By looking at the dining habits of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, Essenes and Therapeutes, an international cadre of scholars provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in importance for Christians, the conflict in styles when Greeks and Romans met, and how meals attained and sustained religious significance. Other topics include funerary banquets; the etiquette of a formal dinner; the position of women at meals; royal feasts; the development of the Eucharist as a separate ritual; the architecture of the Greek andron and the Roman triclinium, early synagogues and temples; the diets of each culture. A separate chapter discusses the provision of food for the hungry and the public ownership of the sea, salt and fish. { 248pp, March 2001; PB, £15.25, 8779340067:9788779340060 , Aarhus University Press } |
| NAMES ON SVALBARD [Eli Johanne Ellingsve] The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during the centuries. These names are artefacts that succinctly represent Svalbard’s unique position in terms of economic and political history. { 186pp, 155x215mm, May 2005; HB, £22.50, 8251920116:9788251920117 , Tapir Academic Press } |
| NEW AGE RELIGION & GLOBALISATION [Mikael Rothstein (ed)] New globalised religions take two forms. Unlike new religions such as Transcendental Meditation, the former Unification Church and The Family, which are just a few of the recent religions to form networks of essentially identical communities around the world, the New Age beliefs discussed in this volume have spread without the benefit of any organisation or unified culture, and their more diffuse nature resists easy categorisation. While some of the chapters in this publication consider aspects of the general nature of New Age religion, the remaining chapters are case studies which examine particular New Age beliefs, including the healing movement, the spiritualisation of money and the UFO, gnostic and goddess myths. { 178pp, 140x215mm, November 2001; PB, £17.95, 8772887923:9788772887920 , Aarhus University Press } |
| NEW RELIGIONS & THE NEW EUROPE [Robert Towler (ed)] This volume contains fifteen presentations on new religions in contemporary Europe, both East and West, in addition to reactions and responses to them. It is composed of highlights from a 1993 international conference in London. Held at the London School of Economics, the conference was presented under the auspices of the three major information centres on new religions in the world, namely, INFORM (Information Network Focus on Studies on Religion Movements, London), CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin, Italy) and ISAR (Institute for the Study of American Religions, Santa Barbara, California). The topics discussed include religious developments in the former Communist Bloc, reactions and responses to new religious movements, as well as various commentary on specific new movements. { 246pp, 155x230mm, November 1995; PB, £14.95, 8772884339:9788772884332 , Aarhus University Press } |
| NORDIC LIGHT [Thomas Bredsdorff, Søren Peter Hansen & Anne-Marie Mai] "Nordic Light" mainly comprises Scandinavian contributions to two conferences convened by The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003, and at the Research Center on European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany, in 2005. The theme of the former conference was the Global Eighteenth Century, that of the second one, Religion and Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was nothing if not an age of networking. People travelled in real or imaginary worlds in order to connect, deride, improve, and learn. This was the age when the notion of universality took shape; ideas travelled because if rights and wrongs are universal, sound ideas must be accessible to all and unsound ones challenged by being exposed to foreign scrutiny. The various contributions show facets of Scandinavian research into the 18th century. The need to see Danish, Norwegian and Swedish culture and literature in a larger context is a characteristic of recent research, as the included essays will demonstrate. { 198pp, 150x220mm, December 2007; PB, £20.45, 8776742709:9788776742706 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| ON THE TRACK OF A PREHISTORIC ECONOMY : Maglemosian Subsistence in Early Postglacial South Scandinavia [Hans Peter Blankholm] Basing this study of South Scandinavia's Maglemosian economy on a selection of the faunal assemblages of the period, this book uses spatial analysis and multivariate correspondence analysis to draw together theories on human movements of the time. { 315pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; HB, £22.95, 8772884398:9788772884394 , Aarhus University Press } |