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| 100 FACES FROM FINLAND : A Biographical Kaleidoscope [Marjomaa (ed)] 100 Faces From Finland contains a series of individual biographical studies dedicated to those who, in their own spheres of life, have made important contributions to the development of Finnish society. The articles came into being as part of the National Biography of Finland, which contains 6000 brief biographies edited by the Finnish Historical Society. The collection is not just an introduction to individuals, however, as the closely interwoven articles provide an overall view of Finland's human resources and expertise over the centuries. The book's time span stretches through three different cultural and political ages: The Middle Ages until 1809, when Finland was a part of the Swedish Realm; from 1809 to 1917, when it was a Russian Grand Duchy; and since 1917 when it has been an independent state. The collection contains, in equal proportions, people who are well-known for their contributions to society, and those who are famous in the arts and sciences. Political life is represented by the Presidents of the Republic, and the less exalted ranks of society by church builders and hunters. Cultural figures known to an international public -- from the architect Alvar Aalto to the composer Jean Sibelius or from the painter Helene Schjerfbeck to the glass artist Tapio Wirkkala -- are also presented in the book. { 625pp, 180x255mm, January 2001; HB, £33.50, 9517462158:9789517462150 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ACROSS THE OCEANS : Development of Overseas Business Information Transmission 1815-1875 [Seija-Riitta Laakso] In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph. { 459pp, 180x260mm, December 2007; PB, £25.99, 9517469047:9789517469043 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ALEXIS KIVI ODES [Keith Bosley, Translator] Aleksis Kivi (1834-72) is the Finnish writer best loved by his countrymen. His novel Seven Brothers -- the first Finnish novel -- has been widely translated, as has his comedy The Country Cobblers, and his tragedy Kullervo (developed from a Kalevala story) is the basis of Aulis Sallinen's opera of the same name. This is the first selection in English of Kivi's poems. They combine Romantic themes -- the natural world as paradise, the primacy of a child's vision -- with a sturdy realism that vividly describes a bear hunt, a gipsy family hilariously plying its trades, a peasant as mute as the oxen he loves. Meanwhile the technique used in most of the poems with their elaborate unrhymed stanzas, echoes Classical antiquity -- which is why the translator has chosen to call this book Odes. { 80pp, 130x230mm, January 1994; PB, £12.50, 9517178085:9789517178082 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ANCIENT KINGS OF PERU : The Reliability of the Chronicle of Fernando de Montesinos [Juha J Hiltunen] A groundbreaking volume and intriguing study which provokes debate in many quarters and reshapes our understanding of the Andean past. Drawing on most current archaeological, ethnographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as intensive use of revalorised documentary sources and cross cultural auxiliary data, Hiltunen offers a completely new insight into Andean prehistory. { 511pp, 180x260mm, January 1999; PB, £20.99, 9517101120:9789517101127 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| APPROACHING SACRED PREGNANCY : The Cult of the Visitation & Narrative Altarpieces in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence [Ira Westergard] During the late medieval period the Visitation became a familiar subject in works of art. Gradually the story of the meeting between the Virgin Mary and Elisabeth emerged as the focus of devotional practices that culminated in the introduction of a new liturgical feast of the Visitation in 1389, Simultaneously with the dissemination of the new feast across Europe, the Visitation also appeared as a new subject at the centre of altarpieces. Transferred to the authoritative context of the altarpiece, the narrative subject represented a combination of the traditional devotional function of the altarpiece and the visual representation of a story. Some important paintings of the Visitation are analysed in separate case studies. The altarpieces of the Visitation produced towards the end of the fifteenth century highlight the religious and social importance of a cult of the Visitation in late fifteenth-century Florence. The roots of this cult are traced back to late medieval spirituality originating in the environment of Dominican convents. As a Christian mystery the Visitation focused on the pregnancy of the Virgin and the blessing of John the Baptist in his mother's womb. As a visual representation at the centre of an altarpiece, both the mystery and the narrative were presented to the viewer for contemplation. { 248pp, 155x230mm, November 2007; PB, £21.99, 9517469500:9789517469500 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ARMY IN FINLAND : During the Last Decades of Swedish Rule (1770-1809) [Dr John E O Secreen] This book describes the army raised in Finland during the reigns of Gustav III and Gustav IV Adolf, the last decades of Swedish rule. It considers the organisation of the army and its role in the defence of Finland. Regimental records and official regulations have been used to illustrate the army’s peacetime routine, which for the majority of officers and soldiers comprised a life as farmers punctuated by periods of training and public works. Subjects covered in the book range from discipline to uniforms. Special attention is paid to how an army whose official language was Swedish interacted with its Finnish-speaking soldiers. The book concludes with an examination of the mobilisation of the army, its performance in war and effectiveness as a fighting force. { 534pp, 150x210mm, December 2007; PB, £25.99, 9517469217:9789517469210 , Finnish Literarature Society } |
| BEST KITCHEN IN TOWN : Finnish Haute Cuisine [Joseph Brady et al (eds)] This book tells the story of a gourmet restaurant in Helsinki, a restaurant whose kitchen many diners have pronounced to be the best in the city. Among the regular guests there have been prominent figures in political and business life, both Finnish and foreign, ranging from heads of state and prime ministers to leaders in the spheres of culture, industry and business. This book presents a compilation of the most interesting menus and best recipes from the kitchen of that restaurant. It offers an overview of the finest features and traditions of Finnish cuisine over the past few decades. The book presents 31 menus comprising over a hundred recipes together with suggestions for accompanying drinks. The recipes are illustrated with Katja Hagelstam's brilliant colour photographs. The works also include four concise articles written be experts on the history of Finnish cuisine and recent gastronomic tends in Finland. However, beyond this cultural-historical content, this is above all a cookbook, whose recipes are intended to be made at home. { 247pp, 215x260mm, October 2007; HB, £32.00, 9517469071:9789517469074 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY & HISTORY : Essays on Microhistory, Collective Action & Nation-Building [Anna-Maija Castren et al] This book contains contributions by distinguished scholars of history, sociology and anthropology from Finland, France, Italy, Russia and the United States. The first part of the book includes empirical research and methodological contributions of microhistory and social networks. The second part contains studies and reflections on nation-building, collective action, and the status of sociology. The writers of these essays wish to honour the 60th birthday of Risto Alapuro, Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. { 344pp, 145x210mm, October 2004; PB, £19.99, 9517466269:9789517466264 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| BEYOND THE HORIZON : Essays on Myth, History, Travel & Society [Clifford Sather & Timo Kaartinen] Society is never just a localised aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its mem-bers' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of "past" and "abroad". This book is a tribute to Jukka Siikala's contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant, inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world. { 240pp, 180x260mm, April 2008; PB, £23.50, 9517469853:9789517469852 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| BEYOND THE LIMITS : The Concept of Space in Russian History & Culture [Jeremy Smith (ed)] From the conquests of Ivan the Terrible to the adventures of Sputnik and Iurii Gagarin, Space has been of central importance to Russian rulers, intellectuals and citizens alike. Russia's physical location and sheer size have contributed immeasurably to her unique history and national character. The state's need to control physical space has spilled over into the personal sphere, leading to peculiar approaches to the organisation of work and domestic living space and a blurring of the distinctions between pubic and private space. Although Russian intellectuals have always recognised the centrality of Space to the Russian experience, until recently the concept of Space has received little attention in academic studies of Russia. This volume highlights and explores the relevance of Space to our understanding of Russia from a variety of different perspectives, historical, philosophical, cultural and sociological. { 276pp, 145x210mm, January 2000; PB, £19.50, 9517101139:9789517101134 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| BIRTH OF THE CLASSIC CAPITAL, 1550-1850 [Jonathan Moorhouse] Capital in 1812, Helsinki became an ideal city. In a beautiful northern archipelago, supreme neo-classical architecture and visionary planning created an harmonic centre of majestic buildings. Here brief walks reveal these existing masterpieces of Empire-style Helsinki, illuminated by old and new maps and contemporary observers. Exquisite pencil drawings by the author in summer light and winter cold illustrate historic views of the sea fortress, Senate Square, University, state salons and the market. This is a portrait of Helsinki's earliest years, surrounds and life, and Finland's rising national culture from both rare and famous viewpoints. { 152pp, January 2003; HB, £15.50, 9517465378:9789517465373 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| BUTS ABOUT CONJUNCTIONS : A Syntactic Study of Conjunction Expressions in Finnish [Riitta Korhonen] Conjunctions in both traditional grammars and modern grammatical models have generally been analysed as loose words, as more or less exceptional elements. In this syntactic study conjunctions are placed in the system of language and grammar. { 199pp, 175x250mm, January 1992; PB, £13.50, 9517177771:9789517177771 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CHANGING SCENES : Encounters Between European & Finnish Fin de Siecle [Pirjo Lyytikainen (ed)] Six articles in 'Changing Scenes' represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siècle literature in Finnish research. The period was seen in earlier research as something of a national renaissance or golden age and interpreted in the light of its national symbols and meanings. Only recently has more attention been paid to its international dimensions and its role in the modernisation of Finnish culture. In particular the spotlight has been trained on the reflection in Finnish literature of manifestations of the degeneration thinking so common in Europe at that time. Research has also picked out works and writers that featured less in earlier studies. { 218pp, 175x250mm, January 2003; PB, £23.99, 9517464398:9789517464390 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CHILDREN'S LORE [Leea Virtanen] Children's play groups have their own oral tradition which is still active and growing, despite the increasing urbanisation of society. { 100pp, 175x250mm, January 1978; PB, £8.50, 951717148X:9789517171489 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| COMMUNISM : National & International [Tauno Saarela & Kimmo Rentola (eds)] Communism: National and International addresses the old but controversial question about the extent of uniformity in world communism. Traditional themes like the general party line and the role of prominent personalities are examined from post Cold War perspectives. From political and organisational questions the approach is extended to ideological, cultural and social aspects. Most thoroughly discussed here is the case of Finland, a peculiar country, where communism had deep domestic roots but also strong ties with the Soviets. Fresh insights are offered into Scandinavian countries, Britain, France, and Italy, into the Comintern, and into social democracy. { 348pp, 150x210mm, January 2000; PB, £19.99, 9517100795:9789517100793 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CONSTRUCTING A LEGEND : The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957-1967 [Petra Ceferin] For decades, the international professional press has described Finland's architecture as characterized by clear-cut forms, logical use of natural materials, attention to detail, careful construction, and sympathetic approach to the landscape. In 'Constructing a Legend', architect-researcher Petra Ceferin takes a critical, strikingly fresh look at the international image surrounding Finnish architecture today, and more importantly, what lies behind it, why this particular image emerged. The Museum of Finnish Architecture was created, in part, to promote Finnish architecture abroad. Employing a series of carefully crafted exhibition tours comprised largely of photographs, the museum strove to define and disseminate the best architecture the country had to offer. Both the name and work of the renown Alvar Aalto lent credibility and celebrity to these events, capturing the imagination of the public and the press alike. Ceferin sees this exhibition-process as the making of a legend, a rich story handed down from the past, the truth of which she questions with a rare mix of revealing empirical research and a sharp sense of investigative irony. Why do we talk about Finnish architecture the way we do? Why does it appear so easy to recognize its central features in the buildings designed by Finnish architects? And why it is so difficult to describe them in a way that does not correspond with what we know as Finnish architecture? Seizing on the notion that we know architecture principally through photography -- that architecture was conveyed to the public through the photographs at these exhibitions -- she points to the curious role of this medium in creating a specific image of Finnish architecture. The foundations of modern architecture are in for some critical restoration. { 198pp, January 2003; HB, £28.50, 9517465424:9789517465427 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CONVERSATION AS AN ACHIEVEMENT IN APHASICS [Anu Klippi] This book will be of major interest to anyone concerned with conversation and interaction, whether as academics or professionals working, for example, in the fields of speech pathology or psychology. { 216pp, 175x250mm, October 2004; PB, £13.99, 9517179154:9789517179157 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CREATING DIVERSITIES : Folklore, Religion & the Politics of Heritage [Anna-Leena Siikala et al (eds)] In Nordic countries, relationships between new immigrants, local ethnic groups and majorities are created in ongoing and sometimes heated discussions. In transforming multicultural societies, folklore has taken on new manifestations and meanings. How can folklore studies illuminate the present cultural, political and historical changes? 'Creating Diversities' seeks answers to this question. It emphasises two important factors in the cultural and political exchanges among historical minorities, recent immigrants, and the majority groups dictating the conditions of these exchanges. The first factor is religion, which is a powerful tool in the construction of ethnic selves and in the establishment of boundaries between groups. The second factor is the role of national and regional folklore archives and ethnographic and cultural historical museums which create ideas and images of minorities. These representations, created in different political climates, affect the general understanding of the people depicted. Fifteen well-known folklorists and ethnographers from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and the United States offer insights and background material on these problems. In addition to immigrants and ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries, especially the Sámi, examples are sought from among the Finno-Ugrian minorities in Russia and the Nordic population in North America. { 307pp, 175x250mm, October 2004; PB, £23.99, 9517466315:9789517466318 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| CROWN, THE NOBILITY & THE PEASANTS 1630-1713 : Tax, Rent & Relations of Power [Antti Kujala] The relationship of the crown and the nobility with the peasants in the 17th century Sweden (Finland) is addressed from the perspective of taxation. Around the middle of 17th century most of the land under the authority of the crown had been donated to the nobles, until King Charles XI began to resituate these tax-payers to the crown in the 1680's. Taxation was based on a kind of social contract, combining the concept of the power state based on the subordination of its subject with the mutual interaction of the latter and those in power. The subjects also had recognised rights in society and they demanded that their superiors abide by the social contract. The peasants neither revolted openly nor did they submit. Instead, their means of securing their interests ranged from loyal allegiance to means of pressure bordering on open resistance. The major disadvantages posed by taxation for them could not, however, be rectified in this manner. The Great Northern War that broke out in 1700 proved to be a burden that was too heavy for Swedish society. { 203pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £19.50, 9517464738:9789517464734 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX SENTENCES : A Case Study of Finnish [Anneli Lieko] When a child begins to relate events and things to each other, to express arguments, explanations, comparisons and description, he begins to use complex sentences. This study shows how a child learns to use complex sentences. The book is addressed to linguists, psychologists and speech therapists, particularly to those interested in the cognitive / semantic and linguistic developments of the child. { 339pp, 175x250mm, January 1992; PB, £16.99, 9517177402:9789517177405 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL PLURALISM IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND : A Conceptual Study with Special Reference to Terminology of Religious Origin [Pasi Ihalainen] Pasi Ihalainen's book demonstrates that political pluralism was generally conceptualised through terminology derived from the traditionally dominant religious discourse, which contributed to continuity in critical attitudes towards political parties. Yet significant shifts also occurred in the application of religious terminology of pluralism. These shifts include the gradual secularisation of the vocabularies of the political and of party. There also occurred a decline in the frequency of religious terms, as politics and religion became understood as separate, though analogous, spheres. Terminologies of religious and political pluralism, became more distinct, which facilitated the expression of more positive attitudes towards political pluralism. { 375pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £20.99, 9517101007:9789517101004 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| DREAM OF LIBERTY : Constance Markievicz's Vision of Ireland, 1908-1927 [Sari Oikarinen] Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) was one of the main leaders of the Irish revolution 1916-1923 which gave Ireland the political geography of the Irish Free State (now the Irish Republic) and the region of Northern Ireland. She was born among the privileged Anglo-Irish but dedicated her life to ending British government in Ireland. Many people from her class were at this same time interested in cherishing the Irish language and culture but only few combined armed rebellion against British government with these nationalistic cultural goals. And even fewer fought to improve the status of workers and women, in the way that Markievicz did. Her role in the Easter Rising of 1916 was an exceptional one for a woman because she had been appointed an officer. In the British general election of 1918 she was the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons and in the first Dail Eireann (the Irish Parliament) she held a cabinet -- post as Minister for Labour. In this research Sari Oikarinen analyses the political career of this remarkable woman from her earliest awakening to nationalism to her espousal of republicanism and socialism within the context of Irish intellectual and political history. In Markievicz's view, the freedom of an individual could only be achieved through the gaining of national freedom and only national freedom could offer the possibility of living a ‘true Irish life': the life of a useful, independent citizen. { 213pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; PB, £20.99, 9517100914:9789517100915 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| DYNAMIC FINLAND : The Political System & the Welfare State [Pertti Pesonen & Olavi Riihinen (eds)] Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult wartime experiences, this dynamic country is now a world leader in many spheres. In 2001 it was named the world's most technologically advanced and also the least corrupt country. Other studies have shown it to have one of the three most competitive economies, the best environmental sustainability, and the second most equal society. Such rapid developments has increased the need for information about Finland and what can be learned from its unique experience. This book offers an introduction to the country today, focusing on the most recent research into its politics, policies, and society, viewed in a comparitive context. { 323pp, 170x250mm, January 2003; PB, £24.99, 9517464266:9789517464260 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| DYNAMICS OF TRADITION : Perspectives on Oral Poetry & Folk Belief [Lotte Tarkka (ed)] This volume shows the reflective nature of the study of folklore. The dynamics of creating histories, nations, ideologies and identities are treated in various cultural arenas and historical contexts, ranging from academic, national and literate cultures to oral traditions. The reader is invited to witness the very creation of ethnographic data in topical studies based on fieldwork. From the ethnographic encounter with folk religion, the focus shifts to mythological traditions and the study of mythology. The section dedicated to epic studies offers a comparative view on epic poetry in various cultural settings. The genre of oral or oral-derived epic studies is a textual arena in which various cultural and historical agents, ideologies and traditions meet in dialogue or in conflict. The volume concludes with four texts inspired by Siikala's studies in the cognitive and affective processes involved in narration and system of belief. Although historically and socially conditioned, the dynamics of tradition is the dynamics of the human mind in all of its faculties. { 390pp, 170x250mm, January 2003; PB, £26.99, 9517464290:9789517464291 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| EDHINA EKOGIDHO -- NAMES AS LINKS : The Encounter Between African & European Anthroponymic Systems Among the Ambo People in Namibia [Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa] What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle affect personal naming, and what are the latest name-giving trends in Namibia? This study analyses the changes in the personal naming system of the Ambo people in Namibia over the last 120 years, starting from the year 1883 when the first Ambos received biblical and European names at baptism. The central factors in this process were the German and South African colonisation and European missionary work on the one hand, and the rise of African nationalism on the other hand. Eventually, this clash between African and European naming practices led to a new and dynamic naming system which includes elements of both African and European origin. { 373pp, 175x250mm, January 2003; PB, £24.99, 9517465297:9789517465298 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ENCOUNTERING ETHNICITIES : Ethnological Aspects on Ethnicity, Identity & Migration [Teppo Korhonen (ed)] What is the difference between a refugee and an immigrant, an evacuee and deportee? What other terms are there for describing migrants? What problems does the returnee face in trying to integrate with the culture of the old father-land? These are some of the topical questions of cultural encounter taken up by Finnish and Hungarian ethnologists in the articles in this book. { 261pp, 175x250mm, January 1995; PB, £19.99, 9517178646:9789517178648 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ENEMY WITHIN : Homicide & Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808 [Anu Koskivirta] This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland. At that time, these were completely agricultural regions on the periphery of the kingdom of Sweden. Indeed the majority of the population still got their living from burn-beating agriculture. The analysis of homicide there reveals characteristics that were exceptional by Western European standards: the large proportion of premeditated homicides (murders) and those within the family is more reminiscent of modern cities in the West than of a pre-modern rural society. However, there also existed some archaic forms of Western crime there. Most of the homicides within the family were killings of brothers or brothers-in law, connected with the family structure (the extended family) that prevailed in the region. This study uses case analysis to explore the causes for the increase in both familial homicide and murder in the area. One of the explanatory factors that is dealt with is the interaction between the faltering penal practice that then existed and the increase in certain types of homicide. Despite the fact that it focuses on a particular region, the study and the questions it poses have both international and current relevance. This work builds a bridge between research into legal history and the sociologically oriented study of the history of criminality. { 217pp, 180x260mm, January 2003; PB, £23.99, 9517464746:9789517464741 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| EVERYDAY LIFE & ETHNICITY : Urban Families in Loviisa & Voru, 1988-1991 [Anna Kirveennummi et al (eds)] The everyday life of families in two bilingual towns is investigated by Estonian, Russian and Finnish ethnologists. In Finnish Loviisa the target groups were Swedish and Finnish language families, while in Voru, Estonia, they were Estonian and Russian language families. The bulk of the research was conducted at the end of the 1980s before the break up of the Soviet Union and Estonia's achievement of independence. { 270pp, 170x250mm, January 1994; PB, £19.99, 9517177690:9789517177696 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINLAND : A Cultural Encyclopedia [Olli Alho (ed)] Finland is snow and ice, midnight sun and endless forest, sauna and Santa Claus. But it is much, much more. In more than 300 key words by almost 80 Finnish experts and scholars, Finland: a Cultural Encyclopedia tells what this country between East and West is made of. It shows what distinguishes Finland from the rest of the world and what unites it with it. The book introduces the central names in Finnish music, scholarship, design and architecture. It covers Finnish culture from religion to rock'n'roll, from mythology to media, from eating to education, from sisu to sex. It reveals the hidden meaning for Finns of snow, light, trees and lakes. Secure against the passions of men, and fearing nothing from the anger of the gods, they have attained that uncommon state of felicity, in which there is no craving left to form a single wish. Tacitus, Germania, A.D.98. { 352pp, 155x250mm, January 2000; PB, £41.99, 9517178859:9789517178853 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINLAND & THE UNITED STATES 1917-1919 : The Early Years of Mutual Relations [Jaroslaw Suchoples] The attitude of the American government towards the Finnish problem, which appeared on the international stage after the outbreak of the First World War, was determined by factors going far beyond bilateral contacts. It was directly linked with American war-time and post-war policy towards Russia, Germany and the problem of supplying Europe with food. The Finnish proclamation of independence, the outbreak of the Finnish civil war and, later, the drawing of this country into the sphere of influence created by Berlin in Central Europe caused Finnish-American relations to stagnate and ultimately to be frozen for several months. The State Department considered whether Finland should be recognised as one of enemies of the United States, while the Finnish government, convinced that the future of Finland should be linked with German victory in the World War, showed no desire to activate political contacts between Helsinki and Washington. The reorientation of Finnish policy created by the military defeat of Germany, however, created conditions for the gradual stabilisation of Finnish-American economic and, later, political relations. Improvement in mutual contacts between both states was ultimately crowned by the initiative of American diplomacy which resulted in the recognition of Finland by the Big Five powers during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. { 221pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £20.99, 951746178X:9789517461788 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH 'OLD ARMY' IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS [J E O Screen] The 'old' Finnish army from the period 1881-1901 became an important symbol of Finnish national identity, whose abolition by the Russians caused extensive protests. The army's existence coincided with the extensive use of photography to record people and events and the officers and man of the army were much photographed. This book provides a selection of photographs which show the army both on and off duty -- in barracks, on parade, during training and in moments of leisure. It helps to restore the often-forgotten 'old army' to its rightful place as a part of Finland's military heritage. { 167pp, 280x220mm, January 2003; HB, £33.50, 9517465130:9789517465137 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH ARMY 1881-1901 : Training the Rifle Battalions [J E O Screen] Between 1881 and 1901 Finland raised a small army that was uniquely separate from the armed forces of the Russian Empire to which Finland belonged as an autonomous grand duchy. This "old" Finnish army has been neglected by military historians because it has been overshadowed by the importance of the army of independent Finland. This book attempts to redress the balance. Although its focus is on the training of rifle battalions that constituted the bulk of the Finnish army of 1881-1901, it ranges widely over the character and purpose of the army as a whole. The book also provides information about the Russian army's training regime which formed the context of the Finnish army's work. As a competent and patriotic military force, the "old army" is shown to be as worthy of regard as the Finnish armies raised at other times. { 315pp, 145x210mm, January 1996; PB, £19.99, 9517100353:9789517100359 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH FOLK CULTURE [Ilmar Talve] This is the first comprehensive account in English of Finland's material folk culture, habits and folklore. It contains a wealth of photographs and maps and provides a good insight into Finnish folk culture against the general cultural trends in Europe. The subject is made all the more interesting by the fact that Finland has for centuries been a melting pot for cultural influences from both East and West. Finnish Folk Culure is a handbook both for students and for anyone interested in folk tradition and its history. It contains an index and a bibliography of works in English and German. { 386pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; PB, £23.50, 9517460066:9789517460064 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH FOLKLORISTICS 1 [Pentti Leino, Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhöj & Urpo Vento] { 205pp, 175x250mm, January 1974; PB, £8.50, 9517170343:9789517170345 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH ONOMASTICS : Namenkunde in Finnland [Heikki Leskinen & Eero Kiviniemi] { 140pp, 175x250mm, January 1990; PB, £19.50, 9517176058:9789517176057 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNISH FOLKLORE [Leea Virtanen & Thomas DuBois (eds)] This book presents an overview of Finnish folklore from the nineteenth century to the present. The Nordic country of Finland has been influenced by both east and west and serves as an excellent showcase of European folklore in general. Guided by Finnish Folklore, readers will learn how folklore has been collected and researched in Finland, what regional distinctions exist in the country's traditions, and how traditions have changed in the process of modernization. An extensive anthology section features ancient alliterative poetry, such as formed the basis of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The book contains translated examples of rhymed folk songs, folktales, legends, and other narratives, proverbs, riddles, jokes, and contemporary genres like children's folklore, urban legends, and anecdotes. Tradition continues to live on in communications from person to person, sometimes travelling thousands of miles and over many national borders in the process. The same item of folklore may acquire new meanings in new contexts. What is the linking thread of tradition? Humour, sexuality, fear, or laughter? Is it our eternal longing for happiness or just the endless need of human beings to pass the time with each other? { 298pp, 175x250mm, January 2001; PB, £24.99, 9517179383:9789517179386 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FINNS IN THE SHADOW OF THE ARYANS : Race Theories & Racism [Aira Kemilainen] This book relates what scholars and dilettante literati from the 16th century until the present have said about the origin of the Finns. The ‘Father of Anthropology', Joh. Fr. Blumenbach, argued in 1795 that Finns and Lapps belonged to the Mongolian race because they did not speak an Indo-European language. Since then many people have assumed that the Finns had recently come from Asia. This was not the only theory, but the ‘Aryans' labelled the Finns as alien and primitive aboriginals in Europe and considered them inferior. Anthropological investigations in the twentieth century disproved these arguments, and modern geneticists say that Finns are genetically near to central Europeans. After the glacial period Finland was settled from the east, south and west and perhaps from the north too. The genetic characteristics of the Finns have been influenced by the different populations who settled in Finland over almost 10,000 years. { 320pp, 150x210mm, January 2000; PB, £19.99, 9517100930:9789517100939 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FOLK NARRATIVE RESEARCH : Some Papers Presented at the VI Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research [Juha Pentikäinen & Tuula Juurikka] Some papers presented at the VI congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research held at Helsinki 1974. The main subjects are Genre theory in folkloristics -- Structural analysis in folkloristics -- Transmission of folklore -- Folklore in human mind, society and culture -- Congress summary. The articles have been written in English, German and French. { 370pp, 175x250mm, January 1976; PB, £10.99, 9517170890:9789517170895 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FOLKLORE & FOLKLIFE RESEARCH IN FINLAND [Helena Jarvinen et al (eds)] Includes studies -- articles, books, and book reviews -- on folklife and ethnology written by Finnish scholars or dealing with Finland. The bibliography of folklore and folklife research in Finland was first compiled by Sulo Haltsonen and published irregularly under the name Finnische volkskundliche Bibliographie in volumes 3-7, 9-10, 12-14, and 16 of Studia Fennica. In the 1970's a new series was started, and the catalogues have come out in the following order: 1927 - 1934 in Studia Fennica (SF) 25, 1935-1970 in SF 23, 1971-1974 in SF 21, 1975-1976 in SF 23, 1977-1979 in SF 25. The segment of 1935-1970 is a selection from the bibliographies by Sulo Haltsonen. All of the bibliographies contain indices of subjects, persons, and places in Finnish and in English. { 91pp, 175x255mm, January 1984; PB, £8.50, 9517173687:9789517173681 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FOLKLORE & FOLKLIFE RESEARCH IN FINLAND : Ethnological bibliography 1927-1934 & 1977-1979 [Sulo Haltsonen. Edited by Päivi Heikkilä & Henni Ilomäki] Folklore and Folklife Research in Finland Ethnological bibliography 1927-1934 and Ethnological bibliography 1977-1979 include studies -- articles, books and book reviews -- on folklore and ethnology written or published by Finnish scholars or dealing with Finland. The items in the bibliographies are arranged in alphabetic order according to the name of the author. The bibliographies are provided with indices of subjects, places and persons in Finnish and in English. { 142pp, 175x250mm, January 1981; PB, £8.50, 9517172591:9789517172592 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FOLKLORE & FOLKLIFE RESEARCH IN FINLAND : Ethnological Bibliography 1935-1970 & 1975-1976 [Sulo Haltsonen, Päivi Heikkilä & Henni Ilomäki] Ethnological Bibliography 1935-1970 was compiled from the ethnological sections in Professor Sulo Haltsonen's Finnische linguistische und volkskundliche Bibliographie (Studia Fennica 3 - 7, 9 - 10, 12 - 14, 16). The bibliography includes folkloristic and ethnological books, articles from scientific journals, and book reviews written by Finnish scholars or dealing with Finland. Articles from newspapers, and works published in Finland by foreign authors on subjects other than Finnish folklore and ethnology have been omitted from Haltsonen's material. The items in the bibliographies are arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the author. The bibliographies are provided with indices of subjects, places, and persons in Finnish and English. { 204pp, 175x250mm, January 1980; PB, £9.50, 9517172168:9789517172165 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FOLKLORE PROCESSED : In Honour of Lauri honko on his 60th Birthday 6th March 1992 [Reimund Kvideland (ed)] Folklore is one of the most national of all disciplines, yet also one with a strong international and scholarly dimension. Therefore, it seems appropriate that this book should be edited by a national institution such as the Finnish Literature Society together with a cross-national institution such as the Nordic Institute of Folklore, with editorial contribution from representatives of university departments in the study of traditions in Finland. The title could have been International Studies in Folklore, for the contributions are truly international in their scope and distribution. We have, however, chosen a title which refers to Lauri Honko's recent occupation with the folklore process. { 259pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £18.50, 9517176961:9789517176965 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FORTUNA, MONEY, & THE SUNBLUNAR WORLD : Twelfth-century Ethical Poetics & the Satirical Poetry of the Camina Burana [T Lehtonen] This study opens up an important perspective to the intellectual history of the 12th and early 13th century. It also proposes a new approach for cultural historical research by using secular Latin poetry as materials for the analysis of the ideological articulation of clerical orders of the time. { 188pp, 170x245mm, January 1995; PB, £20.99, 9517100272:9789517100274 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| FROM WAR TO COLD WAR : Anglo-Finnish Relations in the 20th Century [Juhana Aunesluoma (ed)] This book explores selected themes of Anglo-Finnish interaction ranging from foreign policy, the war years and post-war military strategy to economic, cultural and party political interaction. Established historical interpretations are contrasted with the findings of new research and novel perspectives, facilitated by the opening of archives and primary sources in the 1990s. { 201pp, 150x210mm, March 2006; PB, £22.50, 9517467028:9789517467025 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| GENDER & FOLKLORE : Perspectives on Finnish & Karelian Culture [Satu Apo et al (eds)] The purpose of this collection of articles is to map out the gender ideologies found in Finnish folklore and to raise questions about the processes behind their production, interpretation and transformation. Several authors in this study examine the ways in which, through cultural forms of expression and representation, gender has been used in Finland and in Karelia to symbolically organise such categories as the human body, human environment, 'inside' versus 'outside', and 'this world' versus 'other world'. { 442pp, 175x250mm, January 1998; PB, £25.50, 9517178360:9789517178365 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| GENTLEMEN & SPECTATORS : Studies in Journals, Opera & the Social Scene in Late Stuart London [Henrik Knif] Henrik Knif attempts to outline ways in which the English élite encourage Italian opera as a suitable answer to its urge to express a cultural as well as a social distinctiveness. The clash between the manners and ideologies of a courtly cosmopolitanism and the opinions of those who held to a more civic, and patriotic, persuation forms a recurrent theme in this collection of studies. { 302pp, 170x245mm, January 1995; PB, £20.99, 9517100213:9789517100212 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| GREAT BEAR : A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages [Lauri Honko et al (eds)] These 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers and laments in the original languages and in English convey the worldview and an insight into the lives of pre-literate peoples. The text illustrate the beliefs, perceptions and artistic genius of fifteen peoples scattered across Northern Europe deep into Russia and beyond the Urals, and of Hungarians in Central Europe. Each section is introduced by a specialist essay. { 787pp, 215x235mm, January 1993; HB, £59.99, 9517176317:9789517176316 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| HELSINKI : A Literary Companion [Hildi Hawkins & Soila Lehtonen (eds)] Helsinki is both small and large, young and old. Although founded as long ago as 1550, it did not begin its urban development until the 18th century, and burst into life as a city only after it was proclaimed capital of Finland in 1912. Helsinki: A Literary Companion charts the history and life of the world's most northerly metropolis -- a vibrant maritime city whose story, like its architecture, has always been far grander than its size suggests. The writings selected for this book range from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Richly illustrated with archive material from Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki: A Literary Companion is the first anthology of Helsinki literature to be published in English. It includes fiction, memoirs, poetry, letters and travel writing -- translated from Finnish, Swedish, German, French and Russian, and original texts in English. { 255pp, 125x195mm, January 2001; PB, £19.50, 9517461690:9789517461696 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| HELSINKI -- THE INNOVATIVE CITY : Historical Perspectives [M Bell & M Hietala] Helsinki is both small and large, young and old. Although founded as long ago as 1550, it did not begin its urban development until the 18th century, and burst into life as a city only after it was proclaimed capital of Finland in 1912. Helsinki: A Literary Companion charts the history and life of the world's most northerly metropolis -- a vibrant maritime city whose story, like its architecture, has always been far grander than its size suggests. The writings selected for this book range from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Richly illustrated with archive material from Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki: A Literary Companion is the first anthology of Helsinki literature to be published in English. It includes fiction, memoirs, poetry, letters and travel writing -- translated from Finnish, Swedish, German, French and Russian, and original texts in English. { 447pp, January 2002; HB, £37.99, 9517463596:9789517463591 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MEMORY [Anne Ollila (ed)] Historians have a highly contradictory attitude towards memory. It has usually been categorised as an unreliable source in historical research. However, memory is also understood as one of the key concepts in history. In this book, ten distinguished scholars explores a different perspective. { 222pp, 150x210mm, January 1999; PB, £19.99, 9517101163:9789517101165 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| HISTORY & CHANGE [Anu Lahtinen & Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen (eds)] Historical research is connected to the idea of change and in our ways of understanding it. Inspired by the past and gazing towards the future, historians are needed as critical and self-critical participants in the search for changes and new directions. These changes are discussed in this book, based on the themes and papers presented at the History and Change Conference, which was organised in autumn 2001 at the university of Turku. The themes of the conference were: Changing Roles of Women and Men, Changing Cultural and Technical Environment and Changing Politics in 20th century Europe, and the contributions to this book follow these lines. Each of the authors of the seventeen articles in 'History and Change' observes change from their own starting point, which highlights the different ways in which the concept of change is woven into the pattern of historical research. { 294pp, 150x210mm, October 2004; PB, £19.50, 9517465807:9789517465809 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| HUNGARY & FINLAND IN THE 20TH CENTURY [Ollie Vehvilainen (ed)] The Hungarians and the Finns have had very few direct contacts in the historical past. These people have, however, shared a similar position in that they have both belonged to a group of small and medium-sized nations lying in a zone between East and West, which has sometimes been called "Europe Between". Despite the considerable differences between the two societies, it may be instructive to compare them. This was the basis for a dialogue between Hungarian and Finnish historians which began in the early 1980s, and it has provided the starting point for a number of conferences held in both countries. The present work is based on papers given at a conference arranged in Helsinki in 1998. The articles, written by Hungarian and Finnish historians, offer fresh perspectives both on the political history of the inter-war period especially with regard to parties and ideologies, which are examined from a comparitive standpoint, and on the position of the two countries during the Cold War. { 201pp, 145x205mm, January 2003; PB, £18.50, 9517463766:9789517463768 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| I WILL SING OF WHAT I KNOW : Fifty Lyrics, Ritual Songs & Ballads from the Kanteltar [Keith Bosley (ed)] Fifty poems of lyrics and ballads from Kanteletar composed and sung by generations of men and women living ordinary lives and arranged by Elias Lonnrot, whose best known work is the Kalevala. { 85pp, 130x230mm, January 1990; PB, £10.99, 9517175868:9789517175869 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| IMPERIAL & NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY, SOVIET, & POST-SOVIET RUSSIA [Chris J Chulos & Johannes Remy (eds)] As Russia's rulers have searched for meaningful ways to unify their diverse and widely scatteres population, they have resorted to the twin ideas of empire and nation. In medieval times, the Orthodox population of Rus' rallied around warrior saints who led the strategic and spiritual fight against infidels and heretics. Peter the Great turned Russia away from the middle ages when he created the image of a modern secular state to which all subjects of the realm were to be subordinated, regarless of ethnisity or creed. The last tsars attempted to restore Orthodoxy and ethnicity to their imperial model which the early Soviets replaced with the ideals of multiculturalism and multinationalism. The articles in this book consider how the ideas of empire and nation have led to national identities that both encouraged interaction with the rest of Europe and have erected obstacles to freedom and full membership in the Western European tradition. { 242pp, 145x210mm, January 2002; PB, £18.50, 9517462654:9789517462655 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| IMPERIAL IMPRINTS : Post-Soviet St Petersburg [Elena Hellberg-Hirn] The city on the Neva has recently taken back its original name, St Petersburg. The official strategies for the Tercentenary in 2003 saw the city's potential as being generated by its imperial past. In a series of scholarly essays the author examines the historical background to St Petersburg's contemporary identifications. Framed mainly in romantic and nostalgic terms, they imprint an idealized Old Imperial Russia onto the post-Soviet city. { 440pp, 160x245mm, January 2003; HB, £39.95, 9517464916:9789517464918 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| 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 } |
| INFORMATION FLOWS : New Approaches in the Historical Study of Business Information [Leos Müller & Jari Ojala] Business information is an important subject in contemporary social and economic historical studies. One reason is the revolution in information technology of the recent decades. Another reason is the he impact of neo-institutional economics, which singled out information costs as an important factor in economic performance. However, this attention has primarily been paid to contemporary or recent use of business information. The present book looks at the role of business information from a long time-perspective (1350-2000), with the aim, not least, of pointing out the continuity and the evolutionary character of the changing use of information. The chapters of this book, however, not only cover a long period and a varied subject matter. They also represent new and fresh analytical perspectives on the issue of business information, in addition to providing us with original historical research. This book will attract any scholar interested in information flows from the mid-fourteenth century to the present day. { 311pp, December 2007; PB, £23.50, 9517469411:9789517469418 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| INGRIAN LAMENTS / INKERIN ITKUVIRRET [Aili Nenola] The laments of Ingria represent a Balto-Finnic women's tradition hose other branches include the laments of the Karelian, Vespian and Setu peoples. Women have composed and performed laments in connections with death tries and wedding ceremonies. Laments were also used to bid farewell to boys conscripted into the army during the Czarist era. This volume contains nearly 700 lament texts recorded mostly in writing between 1841 and 1975, here presented in their original language with English translations and commentary. The book also includes samples of lament melodies. { 906pp, 215x235mm, January 2002; HB, £61.99, 9517460589:9789517460583 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| INGRIANS & NEIGHBOURS : Focus on the Eastern Baltic Sea Region [Markku Teinonen & Timo J Virtanen (eds)] In the report of their joint project, Finnish, Estonian and Russian ethnologists, folklorists and linguists examine the eastern Baltic Sea region with special reference to Ingria and the Ingrians. They also take in cultural encounters with neighbouring peoples. The topics for research have further included the Ingrians in Estonia and Finland, the Ingrian congregation in Moscow and the Tikhvin Karelians. { 241pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £22.50, 9517460139:9789517460132 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| INTERPRETING NAIROBI : The Cultural Study of Built Forms [Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna] Nairobi is founded in 1899. It is characterised by the encounter of African, Asian and European communities. Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna traces nine decades of the history of its urban and dwelling forms. The built forms of Nairobi are analysed as participants in processes incorporating geographical, economic, political, cultural, and anthropological aspects. { 374pp, 170x245mm, January 1996; PB, £20.99, 9517100493:9789517100496 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| IRISH FOLKLORE COMMISSION 1935-1970 : History, Ideology, Methodology [Micheal Briody] Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world's largest folklore collections. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors that had a bearing on the establishment and making permanent of the Commission and that impinged on many aspects of its work are here elucidated. This study also deals with the working methods and conditions of employment of the Commission's field and Head Office staff as well with Séamus Ó Duilearga's direction of the Commission. This work should be of interest not only to students of Irish oral tradition but to folklorists everywhere. The history of the Irish Folklore Commission is a part of a wider history, that of the history of folkloristics in Europe and North America in particular. Moreover, the Irish Folklore Commission maintained contacts with scholars on all five continents, and this work has relevance for many areas of the developing world today, where conditions are not dissimilar to those that pertained in Ireland in the 1930's when this great salvage operation was funded by the young, independent Irish state. { 540pp, 175x250mm, December 2007; PB, £25.99, 9517469470:9789517469470 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| KALEVALA & THE WORLD'S TRADITIONAL EPICS [Lauri Honko (ed)] On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the (New) Kalevala, thirty experts on comparative epic research from 12 countries met in Turku, Finland in August 1999 to debate the role of the Finnish national epic and its scientific significance. As material for comparison they used textualised epics from Europe and epic traditions, some of them still preserved in oral form, from America, Africa, Central and Southern Asia. A special look was taken at the Baltic-Finnish and Baltic epics, the Kalevala, the Kalevipoeg, the setu Peko and the Lativan Lacplesis, which all share certain ideological strands. The cooperation between fieldworkers documenting living oral epics and textual analysts utilizing old texts and archive sources sets the tone of the articles of this volume, which brings the singer of epics and his/her cultural world closer to the modern editors and publishers of epics. The paradox of oral performance in writing is brought one step nearer to its optimal solution. { 487pp, 170x250mm, January 2003; PB, £24.99, 9517464223:9789517464222 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| KOMI MYTHOLOGY : Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies [N D Konakov et al] The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies is a descriptive and analytic compendium of the mythologies of the peoples speaking Uralic languages -- from the Lapps in Northern Europe and up to the Selkups and Nganasans in Siberia. The peoples of the Uralic linguistic family being the aborigines of the Eurasiatic North survived a long and complicated history and preserved their original religious and mythological traditions, where traces of primitive beliefs and archaic religious systems (e.g. shamanism) merge into ancient influences (e.g. the Indo-Iranian and Ancient Germanic) and into the later impacts of modern religions. Mythology is understood in broad sense, as the world view, the language of the traditional culture, in all aspects: the history of study, the separate ethnic mythological systems in their origin and historical processes, the reconstruction of the proto-Uralic sources of the modern Uralic mythologies. The central part of the books is to be the explanatory and etymological dictionary of mythological terms of Uralic traditions. The books will have an index of mythological terms, a glossary, list of literature and an introduction devoted to the history of the given Uralian nations. { 436pp, 175x245mm, January 1999; HB, £38.50, 9630578859:9789630578851 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| LANDSCAPE OF FOOD : The Food Relationships of Town & Country in Modern Times [Marjatta Hietala & Tanja Vahtikari (eds)] This book introduces new perspectives on the social history of food by focusing on the food relationships between urban and rural areas in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The theme is approached by historians, ethnologists and geographers through a series of studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Britain, Finland, Italy, Greece and Norway. The volume examines a multitude of aspects of the urban-rural interface, such as provisioning of cities and towns with fresh foodstuffs, urban food production, and changes in the diet. The Landscape of Food takes readers back to the nineteenth-century town with its commercial cowsheds, cattle markets, piggeries, and market gardens and its self-provisioning from allotments and backyard chicken coops and rabbit hutches. The environmental problems associated with these activities presented targets for veterinary surgeons and public health reformers. The emergence in the twentieth century of industrial provisioning of the towns and the preservation of food, with its branded and heavily advertised goods and increasingly standardised recipes and restaurants is discussed, as is the changing role of the countryside. During the second half of the twentieth century, the provision of meals in the home is shown to have developed from the rationing and privation of the Second World War up to the heating of supermarket products in a microwave oven, while cooking, in some urban societies at least, has been reduced to a form of television entertainment. The reaction to this industrialisation of the diet is also discussed, particularly in terms of the utilisation of 'foods from nature'. { 232pp, 170x250mm, May 2003; PB, £23.99, 9517464789:9789517464789 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| LANGUAGE & METRE : Metrics & the Metrical System of Finnish [Pentti Leino] This study seeks to describe the metrics of Finnish as clearly and precisely as possible. It was, however, written primarily for the reader with no knowledge of Finnish or of Finnish poetry, and it mainly concentrates on general metrical theory and associated phenomena. Starting with metrical theory to date and generative metrics in particular the work constructs a general theory of metrics to describe in detail the structure of the metrical system, its variations, possible changes and factors controlling its use. The main theme is thus the relationship between metre and language, and metrics is seen as an integral part of linguistics. { 171pp, 175x250mm, January 1986; PB, £15.50, 9517174551:9789517174558 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MAGIC, BODY & SOCIAL ORDER : The Construction of Gender Through Woman's Private Rituals in Traditional Finland [Laura Stark-Arola] Magic rituals and belief were an important part of everyday life in rural Finland, surviving even into this century. Numerous descriptions of Finnish women's magic rituals have been recorded over the past 150 years, yet we actually know little about the unusual world of women's private magic and women's own motivations in performing it. This book focuses on magic rituals practised by and for women, as well as pollution beliefs about women, and explores how these rituals and taboos reveal gender dynamics and symbolism in traditional Finnish culture. By applying anthropological perspectives to the folklore materials, the author provides new insights into concepts of body and pollution, female sexuality, and gender inequality. Many of the original source materials on women's magic rituals are translated into English for the first time here. This book will be of major interest to students and scholars of Finnish folk belief, gender studies, and women's folklore. { 330pp, 175x250mm, January 2000; PB, £20.99, 9517460511:9789517460514 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MAKING & BREAKING OF BORDERS : Ethnological Interpretations, Presentations, Representations [Teppo Korhonen et al (eds)] The 20th century has seen a greater opening of the borders and a movement of larger masses of people than ever before. Stereotypes of peoples developed through economic or wartime encounters. Political and cultural borders do not coincide. There are linguistic, ethnic and social boundaries. Deconstructions of national borders refer to changing attitudes to the national symbols in a world of globalisation and reconstructions of borders to territorialisation processes on the national and local level. A boundary may be visible or invisible, geographical, mental or symbolic; drawing boundaries may be a conscious or unconscious act. There are concrete, complex and abstract borders waiting for breaking. { 328pp, 180x260mm, January 2003; PB, £24.99, 9517464673:9789517464673 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MEDIEVAL HISTORY WRITING & CRUSADING IDEOLOGY [Tuomas M S Lehtonen & Kurt Villads Jensen; With Janne Malkki & Katja Ritari (eds)] This book examines how the crusading ideology was formulated in medieval historiography and how the crusading movement affected Christianity and the world beyond. The second main theme is the spread of the crusading movement to Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area. Northerners not only participated in the crusades in the Holy Land, but also learned and were inspired to create and take part in a new crusading movement within the Baltic Sea region itself. The relationship between the crusades to Jerusalem and those in the North must be of fundamental importance to understanding the dynamics that created history, both locally and in a general European context, but this relation itself has seldom been the object of thoroughgoing research; on the contrary, the considerable scholarship on both the North and the South has been pursued in isolation. Divided into three parts, this volume opens with the different forms of and reactions to the crusading ideology. The importance of ideology as a driving motivation for the crusaders has again been recognised in international studies since the 1970s, and its impact is also now felt in Scandinavian research environments. The second part moves on to examine the crusading ideology and its impact upon society in a broader context – through its relation to violence, its portrayal of the enemies, and its representations in the policy and construction of the Danish crown and royal mythology. The Northern Crusades in the Baltic Sea region are discussed in the third part as seen through contemporary sources and modern historical writing. This also includes dealing with some of the impacts of the Crusades in Russia and even farther east in Mongolia. The essays in this section show how the general idea of crusading was applied to the Northern areas and frequently resembles in its details the Mediterranean crusades, as well as demonstrate how Scandinavian scholars have often neglected this aspect in modern history writing. { 320pp, 180x260mm, September 2005; PB, £24.99, 9517466625:9789517466622 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MEMORIES OF MY TOWN : The Identities of Town Dwellers & their Places in Three Finnish Towns [Anna-Maria Astrom et al (ed)] This is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settings can be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it is only the town dwellers that experience urban time itself, the time they live in, but through their memories also times past. In this past some elements take symbolically dense expressions. Through reliving and narrating their experiences the symbolically important factors in the this urban relationship will be outlined for investigations concerning three towns, Helsinki, the capital, Viborg, the ceded and lost Carelian town, and Jyväskylä, a town with dense commercial and civilisatory dimensions in the middle of Finland. The symbolic aspects are the kern in all the articles of the book Memories of my Town. The aim of the book and its articles has been to use different theoretical concepts as guidelines in analysing the different narrative texts. Thus the articles are to be seen as independent contributions to the scientific discussion about places, urbanism, memories and narratives. The ethnological outlook is on the other hand an outcome of the joint project Town Dwellers and their Places., whereby the articles substantially relate to one another. Thus the book can also be seen as a joint result of this urban project, which was sponsored by the Finnish Academy. { 249pp, 180x260mm, May 2004; PB, £23.99, 9517464339:9789517464338 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MESSIAH : The Messiah { 16pp, 150x210mm, January 1985; PB, £2.50, 9517174306:9789517174305 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MIDDLE EAST IN THE AMERICAN QUEST FOR WORLD ORDER : Ideas of Power, Economics, & Social Development in United States Foreign Policy, 1953-1961 [J Oikarinen] The book offers a reappraisal of the American conception of a world order and its influence on American foreign policy during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. { 277pp, 175x250mm, January 1999; PB, £20.99, 9517101171:9789517101172 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MIND & FORM IN FOLKLORE : Selected Articles [Matti Kuusi] The Finnish Literature Society is proud to publish some of the key articles written by the grand old man of Finnish folkoristics Matti Kuusi. His folkloristic achievements can be characterised as a giant feat of memory in areas in which the human brain functions better than any computer. Kuusi is a scholar of the Finnish school in his striving for completeness of materials, and he has demonstrated that the strength and riches of folkloristic study lies in its basic materials and their painstaking treatment often with the help of quantitative analysis. Kuusi's unusual intellectual capacity and his unusual ability to handle wide entities have resulted in scientific results that, with the passage of decades, has proved itself to be unusually long-lasting. { 199pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £16.99, 9517177976:9789517177979 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MINIMAL REFERENCE : The Use of Pronouns in Finnish & Estonian Discourse [Ritva Laury (ed)] This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnish languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives for human referents, as well as other topics of current interest in research into the nature of pronominal reference, in particular the contextual, interactive and grammatical factors which influence the use and interpretation of pronouns. An international group of authors approach these questions from several theoretical frameworks including psycholinguistics, syntax, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. The volume is the first collection of articles on this topic published in English. Authors include Outi Duvallon, Marja Etelämäki, Päivi Juvonen, Elsi Kaiser, Lea Laitinen, Renate Pajusalu, Eeva-Leena Seppänen, and the editor, Ritva Laury. { 217pp, 180x260mm, March 2005; PB, £23.50, 9517466366:9789517466363 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MODAL EXPRESSIONS IN FINNISH [Heikki Kangasniemi] Modal expressions are expressions of a viewpoint and attitude. This study examines the nature and use of different modal categories. The main divisions are dynamic, deontic and apistemic modality. Within these domains of modality, special attention is given to the concepts of possibility and necessity and their different interpretations. From the resources of language, in the central position of the examination are the modal verbs. The study is both theoretical and empirical. { 418pp, 175x250mm, January 1992; PB, £22.50, 9517176899:9789517176897 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MODERNISATION IN RUSSIA SINCE 1900 [Markku Kangaspuro & Jeremy Smith (eds)] Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more 'advanced' countries of Europe. All of the leaders of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia have been intensely aware of this gap, and have pursued a number of strategies, some more successful than others, in order to modernise the country. But it would be wrong to view modernisation as a unilinear process which was the exclusive preserve of the state. Modernisation has had profound effects on Russian society, and the attitudes of different social groups have been crucial to the success and failure of modernisation. This volume examines the broad theme of modernisation in late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia both through general overviews of particular topics, and specific case studies of modernisation projects and their impact. Modernisation is seen not just as an economic policy, but as a cultural and social phenomenon reflected through such diverse themes as ideology, welfare, education, gender relations, transport, political reform, and the Internet. The result is the most up to date and comprehensive survey of modernisation in Russia available, which highlights both one of the perennial problems and the challenges and prospects for contemporary Russia. { 331pp, 170x250mm, December 2006; PB, £24.99, 9517468547:9789517468541 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MOVING IN THE USSR : Western Anomalies & Northern Wilderness [Pekka Hakamies (ed)] The central question deals with the westward interaction between Russia and Europe from a Russian perspective: How has the tradition of Russia's culture and history set the conditions for its developmental and political choices? { 161pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £22.50, 9517466951:9789517466950 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MUSIC, MORALS, & THE BODY : An Academic Issue in Turku 1653-1808 [Jukka Sarjala] In this monograph, Jukka Sarjala, a docent of Turku University, explores a long neglected issue in music historiography, the history of passions and emotions. The study concentrates on the philosophy of music in early modern Turku, a Protestant town in the Baltic Sea region { 264pp, 145x210mm, January 2001; PB, £19.99, 9517462646:9789517462648 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MYTH & MENTALITY : Studies in Folklore & Popular Thought [Anna-Lena Siikala (ed)] The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditions, by performers and their audiences. This collection of articles works from the premises that the cultural models which shape mentalities give rise to manifest expression of culture, including folklore. These models also become embedded in the representations appearing in folklore, and are handed down from one generation to the next. The topics of the book cover age-old myths and world views, concepts of witchcraft and the Devil stretching back to the Middle Ages, and the values and collective emotions of Finnish and Hungarian agrarian communities. { 317pp, 175x250mm, January 2003; PB, £24.99, 9517463715:9789517463713 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| MYTHOLOGY & COSMIC ORDER [René Gothóni & Juha Pentikäinen] { 170pp, 175x245mm, January 1987; PB, £16.99, 9517175124:9789517175128 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| NARRATING, DOING, EXPERIENCING : Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives [Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Barbro Klein & Ulf Palmenfelt] How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind them and to reveal how these people handle their history, their lives and their cultural memory. All the articles are based on interviews and narrator-researcher collaboration. The stories tell about birth, sickness and miraculous cures, intergenerational relations, war, and matters not normally talked about. The analyses complement one another and the work may be used as a university course book. { 186pp, 175x250mm, June 2006; PB, £23.50, 9517467265:9789517467261 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| NATIONAL HISTORY & IDENTITY : Approaches to the writing of National History in the North-East Baltic Region Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries [Michael Branch (ed)] From the Introduction: The purpose of the conference which produced the contents of this volume was to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth in Iitti in 1794 of the Finnish historian and Finno-Ugrist Anders Johan Sjogren. The organisers chose to honour Sjogren not by dwelling on his life and work -- though such was his influence in his day that we were frequently reminded of his scholarly legacy during the course of the conference -- but by a critical examination of the historical phenomenon of which he was both a founder and a practitioner in Northern Europe: the role of history in shaping national identities and in nation-building. { 273pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; PB, £21.99, 9517179375:9789517179379 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| NORDIC LIGHTS : Education for Nation & Civic Society in the Nordic Countries, 1850-2000 [Sirkka Ahonen & Jukka Rantala (eds)] The democratic model of education is often hailed as Norden's present to the world. However, when faced with the rules of market economy and the aspirations of the new middle classes, popular education came into crisis. In this book, the past and the present of the Nordic model is studied by nine scholars from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. They question its viability, as well as the credibility of its official history. { 244pp, 175x250mm, January 2001; PB, £17.95, 9517462948:9789517462945 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| NORTHERN REVOLTS : Medieval & Early Modern Peasant Unrest in the Nordic Countries [Kimmo Katajala (ed)] Peasant revolts are a permanent topic of keen interest and discussion in the historical and social sciences. This book presents a real-time picture of medieval and early modern Nordic peasant movements The Nordic patterns of peasant contention differ greatly from those of Continental European and are little-known outside the Nordic countries. Revolt and unrest in all five present-day Nordic countries -- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden -- are presented here. The great peasant wars of Sweden and Denmark are compared and contrasted with the usually more modest disturbances of peripheral Norway and Finland. Pre-modern Icelandic history is interpreted from the perspective of social conflict for the first time. The emphasis is on analysing the pattern of contentious peasant politics. The keys words are 'political culture', 'forms of protest' and the 'organising principles of peasant contention'. The book describes how changes in society affected the forms of peasant resistance. Studying grass roots peasant movements brings the Nordic peasant of days gone by into the centre stage of historical analysis. { 297pp, 175x250mm, October 2004; PB, £23.99, 9517466439:9789517466431 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ON THE WAY TO WHITENESS : Christianization, Conflict & Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910-1965 [Kari Miettinen] The spread of the Christian faith is often said to have marked the greatest change in twentieth-century Africa. Kari Miettinen’s dissertation analyses the processes of this change in Ovamboland of northern Namibia, where it was initiated and guided by the Finnish missionaries. By using socio-historical approach this research presents an interesting analysis, which suggests that conversion to Christianity was often a multi-causal chain of events where the primary motives of the converts often were quite practical. The study brings out new information concerning the relationship between the Ovambo and the Finnish missionaries, and by so doing also particularises or corrects some of the earlier views on the social and cultural effects of Ovambo christianisation. { 370pp, 180x260mm, May 2005; PB, £22.50, 9517466943:9789517466943 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| PASSAGES WESTWARD [Maria Lähteenmäki & Hanna Snallman (eds)] The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant labourers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigrants and their descendants open up new possibilities for understanding the relationship between Finland and the West. The Finnish passage westward has not always crossed national borders. Karelian evacuees headed west, as did young people from the Finnish countryside when opportunities to make a living in agriculture and forestry diminished in the post-war era. The legacy of these migrants is still visible in the suburbs of Finnish cities today. This book is a joint effort of the Department of Ethnology and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. It was written by Ph. D. students supervised by Academy Research Fellows Maria Lähteenmäki and Hanna Snellman, in collaboration with colleagues abroad interested in current research in ethnology and history. { 247pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £23.50, 9517468946:9789517468947 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| PATTERNS OF PHONOLOGICAL DISTRUBANCES IN ADULT APHASIA [Pirkko Kukkonen] The book addresses the questions of abnormal language behaviour caused by brain damage. In aphasia, linguistic problems are often accompanied by motor difficulties (speech, apraxia, dysarthria), or speech perception problems. Fifteen aphasic subjects and five age-matched normal controls were administered a variety of tests to analyse their phonological production and perception abilities. Each subject's behaviour is described in detail, and several types of phonological errors are distinguished. { 230pp, January 1990; PB, £16.50, 9517176236:9789517176231 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| PEASANTS, PILGRIMS, & SACRED PROMISES : Ritual & the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion [Laura Stark] Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of rituals and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unique fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divine between nature and culture, images of the forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. This book will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples. { 229pp, 175x250mm, January 2002; PB, £20.99, 9517463669:9789517463669 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| PERFORMATIVE HISTORIES, FOUNDATIONAL FICTIONS : Gender & Sexuality in Niskavuori Films [Anu Koivunen] Anu Koivunen analyses the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Koivunen argues that the Niskavuori films have mobilised readings in terms of history and memory, feminist nationalism and men’s movement, left-wing allegories and right-wing morality as well as realism and melodrama. { 425pp, 175x250mm, October 2004; PB, £24.99, 9517465440:9789517465441 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| PIONEERS : The History of Finnish Ethnology [Matti Rasanen (ed)] The awakening of national awareness and the gradual emergence of a nation state have long been issues of interest to historians, folklorists, and ethnologists. In the absence of a broader history of Finnish ethnography, the role of the researcher in the national process has remained somewhat in the background. One of the tasks of this book is to make up for this omission. { 213pp, 170x250mm, January 1992; PB, £19.50, 9517176791:9789517176798 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| POSSIBLE WORLDS : The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sebastein Mercier [Rukka Forsstrom] The utopian novel L´An deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s´il en fut jamais by the French author Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) was the first imaginary portrayal of an ideal society projected into the remote future. It reveals a vision of twenty-fifth century Paris, and a world transformed into a community of general happiness, well-being and progress. In searching for answers for the problem of evil and the conditions of happiness on earth in his contemporary society, Mercier´s utopia also offers a generally valid analysis concerning the means and aims of a happy life. On the other hand, the present study indicates that Mercier´s vision of the "best of possible worlds" also reveals a great deal about the reasons why the prevailing eighteenth-century conception of happiness, founded on the Enlightenment ideal of rational control, already contained the seeds of its own destruction. This investigation by Riikka Forsström sheds light on Mercier´s utopian vision both as critical mirror image analysing its own society, and as an exploration of possible futures. In his utopia, Mercier deals with a wide range of subjects, from the needfulness of political reforms, and economic theories, to the collision of a spiritual with a more secular- scientific world view, and even addresses women´s position in society. He makes us reflect on the limits of the possible and how the possibilities could be transformed as part of a living culture. { 326pp, 175x250mm, January 2002; PB, £18.95, 9517463553:9789517463553 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| REAPING THE BOUNTY : McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Turns Abroad, 1878-1902 [Esko Heikkonen] Cyrus Hall McCormick is known as the inventor of the reaper. He reaped his greatest laurels, however, in making his invention into giant corporation. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was among the first American enterprises to turn abroad and reap in foreign fields too. Though intensive use of basic material, this study examines the various stages of the development of the Company into a multinational enterprises. This study is also widened to describe the evolution of the harvesting machine industry, and to cover the outlines of the "reaper war" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. { 319pp, 170x245mm, January 1995; PB, £20.99, 9517100221:9789517100229 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| RECLAIMING THE CITY : Innovation, Culture, Experience [Marjaana Niemi & Ville Vuolanto (eds)] This book provides historical and comparative perspectives on topical questions, examining in particular the impact of global and local forces on urban development in the long term, the cities' capacity to rise to the challenge and their continuous needs to both enhance and contain diversity. These themes are developed by exploring different aspects of urban development such as counter-urbanisation, cultural innovations, changes in spatial form, migration and identity formation. { 240pp, 175x250mm, January 2003; PB, £23.99, 9517465262:9789517465267 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| RELIGIOUS POLICY OF THE STALINIST STATE : A Case Study -- The Central Standing Commission on Religious Questions 1929-1938 [Arto Luukkanen] This historical monograph reveals the unique story of the secret Soviet commission dedicated to decide on religious-political questions during the 1930s. The ‘rise and fall' of the so-called Cult Commission (1929-1938) contributes to our understanding Soviet religious policy, questions of Stalin and Stalinism, the dynamics of the party-bureaucratic interaction, centre-periphery relations and to the 1930s in general This monograph is based on new archival material. The findings will contradict many old stereotypes and pose new questions for scholars investigating the Soviet policies in 1930s. Pointing out that the structural centre-periphery dilemma is one of the key factors in Understanding Soviet religious policy. { 214pp, 150x210mm, January 2000; PB, £19.50, 951710068X:9789517100687 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| RIDDLES : Perspectives on the Use, Function & Change in a Folklore Genre [Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj] Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions. It introduces the reader to different riddling situations and the many functions of riddles, which vary from education to teasing, and from defusing a heated situation to entertainment. { 186pp, 175x250mm, January 2001; PB, £20.99, 9517460198:9789517460194 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ROAD TO PROSPERITY : An Economic History of Finland [Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta & Jukka Jalava] The Finnish economy is a victory over hardship, a success story with few equivalents. During the period 1860-2000 the gross domestic product grew 21-fold, while EU nations on average achieved 11-fold growth. Today, Finland is known for its competitiveness, high educational standards, negligible corruption, expertise in creating and using high technology, and successful companies, most notably Nokia. This book tells how Finland astonishingly evolved from an internationally insignificant agrarian economy to the affluent, knowledge-based, welfare society that it is now. The Road to Prosperity: An Economic History of Finland offers an overview of several centuries of economic progress -- with a keen eye on negative effects of growth. The articles in this beautifully illustrated work contain long-term analyses of business, foreign trade, agriculture, and employment. In addition, there is coverage of the development of banking, the public sector, income distribution, the advance of the information society, and welfare. And the Finnish story is woven seamlessly into the tapestry of international economics. The contributors are prominent scholars of Finnish economic history and economics; the foreword being a product of distinguished American economic historian Joel Mokyr, winner of the Heineken Prize for History 2006. { 343pp, 215x265mm, November 2006; HB, £33.99, 9517468180:9789517468183 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| ROLE OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY SYSTEMS IN US FOREIGN POLICY : The Case of the National Security Council & Vietnam, 1953-1961 [Pasi Tuunainen] This detailed study offers numerous insights into the inner workings and foreign policy decision-making processes of the Eisenhower Administration. Tuunainen's work builds primarily upon extensive declassified archival materials and a massive body of literature. { 523pp, 170x245mm, January 2001; PB, £20.99, 9517462859:9789517462853 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| RUSSIAN HIDE & SEEK : The Tsarist Secret Police in Petersburg. 1906-1914 [Iain Lauchlan (ed)] This book is a study of the operational center of Tsar Nicholas II's secret police (the Okhrana or Okhranka) during the peak of its activities and notoriety. It explores the gulf between the theory and practice of espionage, whereby attempts to create a rational bureaucratic surveillance machine clash with the unpredictable factor of human nature and its weaknesses. The author also examines the social and political friction aroused by the Okhrana during Imperial Russia's turbulent constitutional experiment. Rather than rehashing the old demonic image of a prototypical totalitarian secret police agency, Russian Hide-and-Seek places the Okhrana in its historical context: as an innovator among the Great Powers in the realms of political intelligence and counter-terrorism, striving to avert the precipitous descents into world war and revolution. { 405pp, 145x210mm, January 2002; PB, £19.50, 9517463561:9789517463560 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| SAAMI : A Cultural Encyclopaedia [Ulla-Maija Kulonen, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari & Risto Pulkkinen (eds)] This is a modern reference work about the Saami, a northern indigenous people living in four states -- Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden. It is the outcome of a project launched and co-ordinated by the Saami Studies Work Group of the University of Helsinki. The work presents the national character of the Saami and its manifestations from a point of view located within the Saami culture itself. It is thus part of the great change in scholarship about the Saami which began in the 1970s: the shift from Lappology to Saami Studies. In general and specialised articles, the encyclopaedia presents not only the languages, history, mythology, folklore, music, economy, livelihoods and media of the Saami but also the indigenous peoples’ movement, human rights questions, education, art, social conditions, and so on. The nature and environment of Sápmi (Saamiland) are also dealt with as important background factors. Cultural words and concepts that are characteristic of Saami culture are defined, and there are etymological articles about many Saami words. The work is illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. Particular emphasis has been given to information about minority groups within the Saami people, such as the Saamis of the Kola Peninsula and the Inari and Skolt Saamis, who have hitherto been largely ignored by mainstream Saami Studies, and it has been the committee's concern to ensure that the voices of the different Saami groups themselves are heard. { 498pp, 150x250mm, July 2005; PB, £41.99, 9517465068:9789517465069 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| SELF-INITIATED REPAIR BY FLUENT APHASIC SPEAKERS IN CONVERSATION [Minna Laakso] People with fluent aphasia have problems both in speaking and in understanding spoken language. Typically, their speech is replete with such errors where sounds shift, words blend, or, in the most severe cases, utterances are formed of non-existing words that sound like, but are not words of, the speaker's language. Furthermore, due to their comprehension disorder, fluent aphasics are generally considered to be unaware of the errors in their speech. Taking this into account, what |