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| ADULT LEARNING & THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY [Ove Korsgaard] Adult Learning & the Challenges of the 21st Century was the title of Theme One at the fifth UNESCO conference on Adult Education in Hamburg July1997. The theme had the following keywords: Adult learning for democracy and human rights; Promoting a culture of peace; Encouraging active citizenship; The Role of NGOs; Poverty alleviation; Adult learning and gender issues; Cultural diversity/minority issues; Indigenous peoples. The Association for World Education was asked by UNESCO to be responsible for Theme One. This book is based upon lectures on this theme given at various AWE conferences. { 137pp, 150x210mm, January 1997; PB, £11.65, 8778382785:9788778382788 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| ADVANCING FRONTIER OF SURVIVAL [Väinö Kannisto] This volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the same author. While the first publication was essentially a time series studies, the present one is a life table analysis of the same countries in the same period, less precise on timing and more sharply focused on age. Instead of annual fluctuations in 5-year or broader age groups, dealt with in the former, the present study examines mortality by single years of age. To do it successfully, the data are combined into 10-year periods in order to secure meaningful numbers of observations at ages where they are few. This has, in fact, allowed calculation of fairly robust death rates up to age 109 for an aggregate of several countries. { 145pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; HB, £14.25, 8778381851:9788778381859 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| AMERICAN CENTURY : A Chronology & Orientation (1900-2007) [David E Nye & Thomas Johansen] Because of its rapid growth, ubiquitous popular culture, and global power, almost everyone knows many things about the United States. But often these many facts float about rather freely. For those who need a chronology and orientation mixed with scholarly insight, this is the book you need. For research, for studying, for trivia. And for putting the right events in the right order. The book is a timeline: it organises the political, social, literary, and cultural events of each year of the twentieth century, plus the beginning of the 21st century, with very short essays suggesting how these many events fit into larger patterns. { 151pp, 155x230mm, January 2008; PB, £11.00, 8776742504:9788776742508 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| AMSTERDAM TREATY : National Preference Formation, Interstate Bargaining & Outcome [Finn Laursen (ed)] This publication examines the Amsterdam Treaty negotiated by the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 1996-97. It looks at the preferences of the main actors, the Member States, the Commission and the European Parliament, as well as the negotiation process that produced the Treaty. The book includes chapters on each of the main actors as well as the most important substantive issues: the changes in the Union's first pillar, mainly in respect to environment and employment policies, changes in the second pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the creation of a new Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) as well as the introduction of new provisions on 'closer co-operation' or flexibility. Concluding chapters seek to confront the Treaty reform process with leading integration theories. { 655pp, 180x260mm, January 2002; PB, £26.50, 8778386195:9788778386199 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| ANONYMOUS LEADER : Appointed CEOs in Western Local Government [Kurt Klaudi Klausen & Annick Magnier (eds)] Local government takes upon itself important tasks and are prime movers in the implementation of new developments in most welfare societies. How it has managed itself is clearly not an unimportant matter, but it is something we know comparatively little about. This volume is concerned with the top civil servants in local government, the Chief Executive Officers, those who form the link between the political and the administrative system. Based on a statistical survey, this is a comparative study which looks at fifteen countries: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel (the only country not to conduct the survey), Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and USA. Potentially, the CEO holds an important position in local administrative and political life, yet we know little about them, how they are recruited, how they regard their own role and particularly their position vis-à-vis the political system. This is what the contributors set out to explore country by country, and the results are discussed in two overview chapters. { 312pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £22.35, 8778384133:9788778384133 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| ASPECTS OF SECULARIZATION : Science & the Arts [Soren Baggesen (ed)] The essays in this collection follow the various phases of the history of secularisation, from the crucial turning point between the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement up to the present situation. Of course they cannot cover the field. But by focusing on specific moments of the process, in the works of individual artists or in key periods in the modern history of the arts, they deeply illuminate the multifaceted character of the problem. { 150pp, 175x250mm, January 1997; PB, £21.00, 8778381533:9788778381538 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TREATMENT & OUTCOME : A Clinical Psychiatric Study [Elesbeth Nylev Stenager] This work contains a comprehensive description of current prevention initiatives, especially in connection with repeated suicide attempts. It neither gives the answer nor presents a solution to this great problem in our society, but it comprises an extensive review on the situation today. Drawing form the extensive experience gained from her interviews with 139 persons, the author puts forward new prevention strategies which could be used in the future. { 145pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £18.75, 8778381711:9788778381712 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| BEER & BREWING IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL DENMARK [Kristof Glamann] No inquirer delving through the strata of Denmark’s past in search of its well-springs can fail to strike a flood of beer, gushing forth in endless variety and profusion. Down through the centuries beer remained an essential element in the diet. Brewing has been a household art practised all over in town and country alike. This book examines the productive activities by virtue of which the nation’s beer requirements were met. Brewing made use of one of the nation’s economically most prominent crops. The first chapters contain an account of old-time brewing involving a discussion of the character of the beer, then follows the emergence and establishment of commercial brewing under the aegis of a guild, relations with the municipal authorities and the central government, furthermore foreign and domestic competition, taxation, price control, government orders and trade conditions. The Copenhagen rota brewing system, a sales cartel, is considered separately. This leads on to depict some of the main themes of development during the eventful 19th century, when large scale brewing was introduced based on top-fermented beers, improved refrigeration, quality control due to new insight in the laws of nature, as well as improved quality of barley and other raw materials. { 234pp, 180x260mm, January 2005; PB, £23.50, 8776740684:9788776740689 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| BEYOND THE CRISIS IN US AMERICAN STUDIES [David E Nye (ed)] This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invitation to develop a dialogue across the Atlantic. For too long European scholars have watched Americanists in the United States as though looking through a one-way window, invisible to those arguing on the other side of the glass. For too long US Americanists have scarcely realised that what appeared a mirror could be a window. { 257pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £20.50, 8776742520:9788776742522 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| CHARITABLE WOMEN : Philanthopic Welfare, 1780-1930 [Birgitta Jordansson & Tinne Vammen (eds)] The crisis of the welfare state in present days in Scandinavian countries is a major inspiration behind this collection of papers by nine scholars specialising in intellectual and social history, in women’s studies and the history of gender in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. By tracing the varied role of women as producers and distributors of welfare during the period 1780-1930 in both metropolitan and provincial contexts, this collection argues that philanthropy predated, shaped and co-existed with the formation of the "classical" welfare state. Women had a crucial role to play in the making and implementation of philanthropic policies as an alternative to state sector strategies and provisions. This collection highlights the bias of gender and class in social work. It reveals little-known aspects of gender history in Scandinavian countries and indicates the need to revise our traditional notions of the absence of women from the public sphere before their political emancipation at the beginning of this century. { 288pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; PB, £23.50, 8778383390:9788778383396 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| CHILDHOOD & CHILDREN'S CULTURE [Flemming Mouritsen & Jens Qvortrup (eds)] For over a decade, sociologically oriented childhood research and research on child culture have experienced a dramatic growth within the humanities and the social sciences as well as an increasing prominence at the institutional level. This book is the meeting place of two closely related fields of research: children’s culture and the history of childhood on the one hand, and the sociology and anthropology of childhood on the other. The two 'camps' share a joint methodological view of children as agents in their own lives, environments and even in society at large, yet it is also agreed that their lives and welfare are largely formed by adults and the society in which they live. Both research areas have been vital for the development of new strands of childhood research which are in many ways characterised by a departure from more conventional approaches, concepts and understandings that have dominated childhood research -- and childhood itself -- in much of the 20th century. The articles in the book represent numerous aspects of the two areas of research. In a critical vein, the sociologically and anthropologically oriented contributions cover studies of structural aspects of childhood as well as qualitative studies of children’s everyday life, while the culturally oriented contributions comprise classical studies of children’s culture products, history, media, play culture and symbolic forms of expression. The articles present general differences and divergences in methods and perspectives, but also show what the two types of approach have in common. { 260pp, 180x260mm, January 2003; PB, £19.50, 8778383765:9788778383761 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| CHILDHOOD & OLD AGE : Equals or Opposites? [Jorgen Povlsen, Signe Mellemgaard & Ning de Coninck-Smith (eds)] Who hasn't heard of elderly people "in their second childhood" -- or of children who "grow old before their time"? Expressions such as these bear witness to the fact that a variety of images and expectations attach themselves to biological age. When various ages are set side by side in contrast to each other, these images and expectations become apparent. "Childhood and old Age" lies at opposite ends of life's trajectory and so are quite distinct. The child finds itself at life's starting-point, the old person at its close. And yet there are in many areas more similarities than differences. Both children and old people live an institutionalised, economically unproductive and sheltered life and, in our late modern society, are completely dependent on middle-aged adults. Both age groups are objects of commercial, medical-scientific and pedagogical interest. The aim of this anthology is to confront expectations of childhood with expectations of old age. The focus is not, then, on age as a biological phenomenon, but on preconceptions of age and on the ways in which man, at different times and in different cultures, has dealt with age. The articles view their subject from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and there is an attempt to answer questions about age in the society of the future, where biological lifespans will be challenged by gene technology and improved living conditions. { 213pp, 155x230mm, January 1999; PB, £23.50, 8778384907:9788778384904 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| CHILDHOOD, GENERATIONAL ORDER & THE WELFARE STATE : Exploring Children's Social & Economic Welfare [Helmut Wintersberger, Leena Alanen, Thomas Olk & Jens Qvortrup (eds)] So far, research on the welfare state has usually neglected children and childhood. In the rare attempts to include childhood in welfare state analysis, too much emphasis was placed on children as future adults. However, only a full recognition of children as human beings and citizens here and now are compatible with new social studies of childhood as well as children's rights discourses. Thus the conceptual integration of children and childhood in the welfare state is still an open question. The present book tries to close this gap by offering the concept of generational order as theoretical tool to both childhood and welfare state research. In analogy to gender analysis, this concept is an adequate tool for making the adultist bias of traditional welfare state theories and practices visible. Authors of 10 predominantly European countries explore in 11 chapters issues of children's social and economic welfare such as child poverty in a theoretical methodological and practical perspective. Together with volume 2, "Flexible Childhood", this book is the final result of COST Action A19, Children's Welfare, which has been supported by the European COST Framework. { 273pp, 175x250mm, May 2007; PB, £27.25, 8776742016:9788776742010 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| COLD WAR -- & THE NORDIC COUNTRIES : Historiography at a Crossroads [Thorsten B Olesen (ed)] Research into the impact of the Cold War in the Nordic countries has boomed since the end of the Cold War itself. The end of the conflict has made it possible for historians to see the Cold War period as a full epoch with a beginning and an end. In the Nordic countries the increased interest in and emphasis on Cold War history has been accompanied by heated public debate over revelations of Cold War skeletons in the cupboard or polemics on Cold War guilt and betrayal. In five national chapters covering each of the Nordic countries and supplemented by a joint introduction and conclusion, this book aims at providing an overall picture of how post-Cold War historiography has affected and changed our view and understanding of the Cold War in the Nordic countries. { 194pp, 155x230mm, January 2004; PB, £21.00, 8778388570:9788778388575 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| CONTINENTAL BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH & ITS INSULAR DEVELOPMENT UNTIL 1154 [Hans Frede Nielsen] In view of the numerous books that already exist on the subject, it may not be immediately obvious to the layman why scholars should feel the need to continue to write on the history of the English language. However, the flood of writing continues and bears witness to an incessant demand and an unabating interest. As this author demonstrates in his opening chapter, the relevance of English language history is as great as ever, not least as a central key to the understanding of cultural history. In conjunction with two further volumes scheduled to appear at a later date, this volume gives a comprehensive survey of salient aspects of English language history from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The volume spans the period up to 1154, the year which saw the inauguration of the Plantagenet era in England and the last year to be recorded in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. { 234pp, 155x215mm, January 1998; PB, £25.75, 8778384206:9788778384201 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| CROSS-CULTURAL PROTECTION OF NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT [Finn Arler & Ingeborg Svennevig (eds)] Over the last few decades, various international and cross-cultural partnerships have been established, often with impressive speed, to facilitate the protection of natural resources and the environment. However, many problems exist within these partnerships: international declarations and conventions are not binding in the same ways as national laws; the motivations behind the involvement of a country or culture are not always easy to identify and are often understood differently in different places; environmental obligations are often interpreted and implemented differently in different places; and common aims are often not mutual at all. These difficulties surrounding the establishment and implementation of workable international and cross-cultural environmental policies form the basis of this book. { 248pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; PB, £23.50, 8778383471:9788778383471 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| CROSSING BORDERS : Re-Mapping Women's Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century [Hilda Rømer Christensen, Beatrice Halsaa & Aino Saarinen] This anthology indicates the many and multi-layered ways in which women’s movements have developed over the past and the challenges faced by the women’s movements today. Covering a broad range of issues, the book strives for re-narration and re-location of one of the major social movements of the 20th century and fresh analysis of the latest trends. The anthology points to the importance of strategic generalisations of gender. The women’s movements are seen as forming a wide range of discursive communities that have gradually unfolded at the global level during the 20th century. The volume invites readers to recognise the integrated nature of research, reflection and contextualisation and is a manifestation of the links between women’s movements and gender studies as well as the struggle of coming to terms with new challenges and new interpretations. { 371pp, 180x260mm, January 2004; PB, £21.25, 8778388597:9788778388599 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| CUSTOM, CULTURE & COMMUNITY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES : A Symposium [Thomas Pettitt & Leif Sondergaard (eds)] Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-18 November 1992. { 126pp, 150x220mm, January 1994; PB, £14.00, 8778380219:9788778380210 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| DANISH POPULATION HISTORY, 1600-1939 [Hans Chr Johansen] This is the first comprehensive account of the country's population developing in the centuries before and during the demographic transition. Based on both macro-sources and a multitude of computerised micro-sources and by using advanced demographic methods insights in the development of nuptuality, fertility and mortality has been achieved. The results are analysed on the background of economic and social changes in Danish society and demonstrate an early decline in mortality from around 1775, whereas a high level of fertility was a characteristic feature until very late in the nineteenth century. { 244pp, 180x260mm, January 2002; HB, £21.25, 8778387256:9788778387257 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| DENMARK'S POLICY TOWARDS EUROPE AFTER 1945, 2ND EDITION : History, Theory & Options [Hans Branner & Morten Kelstrup (eds)] Since 1945 Denmark's policy towards Europe has become one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue, in Danish politics. Why is this? In what way is Denmark a special case with regard to European policy? What are the basic factors in the formation of Danish European policy, and how does the study of this policy contribute to the field of foreign policy analysis? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. The aim is to provide the reader with a better understanding of Danish policy towards Europe, taking into account both historical and theoretical aspects. The contributors to the volume are experienced researchers in political science and history. They approach the main theme of Danish European policy from four different perspectives. A theoretical, a historical and cultural, a perspective focusing on policy determinants and A decision-making perspective. The book forms part of the Copenhagen Research Project on European Integration (CORE). { 441pp, 180x260mm, January 2003; PB, £21.25, 8778385415:9788778385413 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| DEVELOPMENT OF FLATEYJARBÓK, ICELAND & THE NORWEGIAN DYNASTIC CRISIS OF 1389 [Elizabeth Ashman Rowe] Flateyjarbók is the name given to 'GKS 1005 fol.', a manuscript now housed at the Árni Magnússon Institute (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi) in Reykjavík, Iceland. It is the largest of the extant medieval Icelandic manuscripts and is beautifully illuminated with historical initials. In its original form it contained 202 leaves, with the text laid out in two columns to the page. It is so well preserved that not a single leaf is missing and each word is still legible. The manuscript was commissioned by Jón Hákonarson (1350-1416), a wealthy farmer living at Víðidalstunga in the northern Iceland, and it was written in the area, most likely at Víðidalstunga or at the nearby monastery of þingeyrar. { 486pp, December 2005; HB, £27.10, 8778389275:9788778389275 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| DEVELOPMENT OF OLDEST-OLD MORTALITY, 1950-1990 : Evidence from 28 Developed Countries [Väinö Kannisto] This volume by Väino Kannisto, former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics, is the first in the Odense Monographs on Population Aging. It is fitting that Kannisto is the first author because the core set of data that built up to establishing the series, was assembled, tested for quality, and converted into cohort mortality histories by him. These data, which pertain to death counts and population counts by years of age, year of birth, and current year over the last four decades or in some thirty countries, permit estimation of death rates after age 80. Kannisto shows in this first volume that in developed countries since 1950 death rates among octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenrians have been reduced substantially. The novelty and magnitude of the observed mortality decline justify it being called a new stage in mortality transition. The pace of mortality improvement has accelerated in most countries since 1950. Kannisto concludes that “the new transition may, barring unforeseen events, still continue for an extended period". { 108pp, 180x260mm, January 1994; HB, £18.75, 8778380154:9788778380159 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| DILEMMAS OF REACTION IN LENINIST RUSSIA : The Christian Response to the Revolution in the Works of N A Berdyaev, 1917-1924 [Christian Gottlieb] In the moral and spiritual vacuum left in Russia by the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91 some of the thinkers who first opposed the Leninist revolution of 1917 have come to a new prominence. Important among them is the religious philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) who is now frequently cited as a source of inspiration in the attempt to overcome the disastrous legacy of the Soviet experiment and in the search for a new national identity. This book focuses particularly on his early post-revolutionary works, which express a passionate protest against the revolution. His was clearly the most comprehensive contemporary critique of the revolutionary project from a Christian perspective. Essential themes of Christian theology and social thought are brought out in a radical way suitable to a radical situation. From his consistently religious perspective he foresaw with precision much of the inhuman and tyrannical potential of the revolutionary project -- later to be abundantly confirmed by the development of the Soviet regime. The dilemmas discerned in his response particularly relate to his call for spiritual resistance and to his expectation of a Christian alternative -- an illustrative instance of the confrontation of Christianity with the modern world. The theological and philosophical investigation conducted in this book provides a new interpretation of Berdyaev’s response in the light of its historical setting and with a view to its contemporary significance in the post-Soviet situation. { 453pp, 180x260mm, January 2003; HB, £22.75, 8778388074:9788778388070 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| DIVINATION & PORTENTS IN THE ROMAN WORLD [Robin Lorsch Wildfang & Jacob Isager (eds)] The ancient Romans believed that the gods sent signs of future events to men through the flight of birds, meteorological disturbances and other natural phenomena. These signs influenced every sphere of ancient life, both public and private, from a state’s decision to go to war or make peace, hold an election or meet a public crisis to an individual’s business, marriage or travel plans. The book illustrates how the various Roman divinatory techniques were inter-woven into the structures of ancient society as well as how they were used in literary contexts. The intriguing question of the alleged doublethink among the Roman intellectuals in their attitude to Divination is another important theme taken up in "Divination & Portents in the Roman World". { 79pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £11.75, 8778384621:9788778384621 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| DOPING & PUBLIC POLICY [John Hoberman & Verner Møller] In the Tour de France of 1998, for the first time ever, political forces intervened to lay bare the comprehensive doping practices of popular athletes, which had been covered up by the sports officials as well as by journalists who might have exposed them. As these dramatic raids made it clear that doping practices pervaded professional cycling and as such put an end to the myth that doping can simply be attributed to the moral defects of corrupt individuals, suspicions grew that cycling was probably not the only major sport in which doping was for many athletes a way of life. This great Tour de France scandal of 1998 made possible a genuine campaign against doping led by governments and sports officials. In 1999 this resulted in the creation of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) by which the way was paved for a partnership between an independent international body and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This arrangement has produced some notable successes in the drug testing of elite athletes over the past several years wherefore many observers may well believe that there is today an effective global anti-doping consensus and that doping is gradually being eliminated from major Olympic sports. The essays appearing for the first time in this volume, however, show that athletes who dope and those that pursue them are trapped in a fateful conflict that is far more complicated than the familiar story line suggests. The detect-and-punish strategy currently being refined by WADA does not address some of the major dimensions of the doping phenomenon: the rights and requirements of the athlete-worker, the gradual legalisation of “soft” doping techniques, nationalistic resistance to doping control, the perils of corporate sponsorship, the expanding black market for doping drugs, the public’s tacit acceptance of doped athletes, and the cherished illusion that the Olympic motto citius, altius, fortius is compatible with the requirements of a drug-free sport in the 21´th century. “Doping and Public Policy” argues that the current strategy of condemnation and surveillance is not enough, and that it is time to rethink anti-doping policy in the global context where it belongs. { 163pp, 180x260mm, January 2004; PB, £18.75, 8778389429:9788778389428 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| ENLIGHTENED NETWORKING : Import & Export of Enlightenment in 18th Century Denmark [Thomas Bredsdorff & Anne-Marie Mai (eds)] Globalisation is a recent term, most often referring to capitalism without frontiers and its many ramifications. Applying the term to events and phenomena occurring 2-3 centuries ago is, of course, an anacronism, but a useful one, reminding us of the intellectual urge at work behind even the murkiest efforts at forging alliances and creating networks: the idea, however embryonic, that men and women around the globe are basically of one nature and may gain by exchange. The Enlightenment was nothing if not an age of networking. People travelled -- in real or imaginary worlds -- in order to connect, deride, improve, and learn. That was the age when the notion of universality took shape, idea travelled, because if rights and wrongs are universal, then sound ideas must be accessible to all and unsound ones challenged by being exposed to foreign scrutiny. No one is claiming that Denmark was a major contributor to the Enlightenment. We do claim, however, that the small kingdom took an active part in Eighteenth-Century Europe its enlightened networking. { 78pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £10.00, 8778388589:9788778388582 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| ENTERTAINER : in Medieval & Traditional Culture [Flemming G Andersen (ed)] Five papers explore the cultural traditions of Germany, including its Danish connections, and Britain, with its Gaelic and Anglo-Norman connections. { 148pp, 150x220mm, January 1997; PB, £10.70, 8778382947:9788778382948 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| ESSENCE OF SPORT [Verner Møller & John Nauright (eds)] Problems within modern sports are proliferating. Fraud, drug taking and other health damaging consequences of high performance sports have revealed that the idea of sport as a healthy and educational enterprise is nothing but an illusion. Nevertheless sports attract huge crowds. That the public does not turn its back on modern sports despite the evils involved is something of a mystery which indicates that the lure of sports is much different from what is normally thought. A discussion of the attraction of sports is imperative for an up-to-date understanding of modern sport. The authors in "The Essence of Sport" bring a wide range of international perspectives and approaches to this common theme and provide valuable insights into contemporary sport. { 138pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £10.00, 8778387647:9788778387646 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| EUROPEAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF TECHNOLOGY [Dan Ch Christensen (ed)] This is an anthology about technology's role in the modernisation process. It is written by a European group of historians of technology. Technological modernisation is very much a question of transferring technology from an innovating culture to a culture aspiring to economic growth. But technology is not only a lever of riches. Sometimes it was not even that. Technology in this anthology is not defined as artefacts only, but as skills and culture, too. Technology transfer was, perhaps, the most important agent of modernisation. Consequently, modernisation must be understood as a complex internationalisation of technological competence. Technological artefacts will always be embedded in a cultural environment. During transfer the recipient culture is likely to be upset, because transfer of technology invariably means transfer of cultural values. Sometimes the recipient culture refuses the technology transfer, sometimes it manages to shape the technological artefact according to its own cultural values, but quite often the recipient cultures succumb. The modernisation process can be seen as technology transfer smoothing out divergencies between cultures of European nation states. Or a smelting pot of technological artefacts and skills. This volume is an attempt to study the relationship between technology as artefacts and skills and cultural environments, academies of science, education systems and ethical values in a comparative European perspective. The papers were given at a conference in Roskilde in 1992 attended by some 40 historians of technology from Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. { 242pp, 180x260mm, January 1993; PB, £25.75, 8774929100:9788774929109 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| EVOLUTION OF THE DANISH POPULATION FROM 1835 TO 2000 [Kirill F Andreev] Book & CD-ROM. International comparisons of mortality aimed at revealing age-specific and time-specific differences in survival between Denmark and nine developed countries have been carried out by estimating surfaces of ratios of death rates in the last decades. To gain deeper insights into this phenomenon comparative analyses of death rates by causes of death for Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Japan have been performed. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM including colour Lexis maps, graphs of trends in death rates by causes of death, animated graphs of common survival indicators and a Lexis program for producing Lexis maps. { 125pp, 180x260mm, January 2002; £15.30, 8778387167:9788778387165 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| EXCEPTIONAL LONGEVITY : From Prehistory to the Present [Bernard Jeune & James W Vaupel (eds)] The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinised in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countries even today, lived less than 100 years. On the other hand, the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of current new-borns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th birthday. Extremely few of our grandparents endured a century but centenarians may be commonplace among our grandchildren. This volume explains and documents these assertions, with research that melds judicious scepticism and painstaking scholarship with intellectual excitement about the advancing frontier of survival. { 169pp, 180x260mm, January 1995; £18.75, 8778381355:9788778381354 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FIRST GLOSSARY OF HIBERNO-ENGLISH [Lis Christensen] This book is designed for newcomers to the English spoken and written in Ireland. Features: Over 500 headwords, including words of Irish (Gaelic) origin and English words no longer current in England, or used differently in Ireland; Examples from a wide range of authors, and from the contemporary press; Phonetic transcription of Irish sources; Special sections on spelling and pronunciation, and on the changing status of Irish and English. { 144pp, 155x230mm, January 1996; PB, £25.75, 8778381894:9788778381897 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FLEXIBLE CHILDHOOD? : Exploring Children's Welfare in Time & Space [Helga, Zeiher, Dympna Devine, Anne Trine Kjørholt & Harriet Strandell] Children's spaces are widening -- culturally and socially: socially their spaces are more often multilocal, and culturally they are enlarged through mobility in the globalised and virtual spaces in the mediatised world. Children's times are also less confined by strict borderlines; the more flexible and individualised use of time in the world of work impacts on children's lives in families, day care and school. The chapters of this volume each present particular temporal and spatial aspects of social change in childhood. The aim of the book goes even further: it is directed toward considering the impact of such change on children's welfare. As former boundaries between generations begin to blur and neo-liberal forces enter all realms of people's lives, it can no longer be taken for granted -- as it was in former periods of modernity -- that continued efforts to realize the childhood project will automatically guarantee the "best interest of the child". With respect to children's welfare in time and space, tensions between demands from the market economy, dynamics of rationalisation and technology, and visions of a "good" childhood are discussed in the book. Together with volume 1, "Childhood, Generational Order and the Welfare State", this book is the final result of COST Action A19, Children's Welfare, which has been supported by the European COST Framework. { 238pp, 175x250mm, May 2007; PB, £27.25, 8776742024:9788776742027 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| FOLK HIGH SCHOOLS IN BANGLADESH [Dr K E Bugge] During the last twenty years five folk high schools have been established in Bangladesh. They represent the first schools of this kind founded in a Muslim society. The book describes the genesis and aims of these schools. Their daily function and outgoing activity within the local context is extensively reported. The relationship of this initiative to the Danish high-school tradition and to the ideas of the originator, N.F.S Grundtvig (1783-1872), is discussed. The new interpretation of Grundtvig's ideas developed in this Third World milieu is analysed, and some future perspectives are delineated. { 94pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £11.75, 8778386306:9788778386304 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FOLKWAYS & LAW WAYS : Law in American Studies [Helle Porsdam (ed)] Foreign observers of American culture have always been puzzled by the invocation in all kinds of unlikely contexts of judicial authority, by the constant reference to personal rights and freedoms, and by the way in which any topic -- be it of a political, moral, social or cultural kind -- invariably turns into a legal one. Permeating, as it does, all levels of American society and penetrating into all corners of American culture, the law therefore makes an obvious area of study for anyone interested in American Studies. The thematic approaches of the ten essays in this volume are very different and wide-ranging. What the authors of the essays all have in common is a concern for American law and legal discourse as these relate to American culture. Incorporating into the field of American Studies legal concerns and legal issues presents problems of both a methodological and an ideological nature. Several of these are intrinsic to the very attempt of doing interdisciplinary work and consequently concern the nature of American Studies itself. Addressing these problems as they crop up in relation to the cultural works discussed, the contributing authors show that some of the most fertile debates of our discipline are currently taking place within law and American Studies. { 256pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £18.25, 8778385830:9788778385833 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FORCE OF MORTALITY AT AGES 80 TO 120 [A R Thatcher, V Kannisto & J W Vaupel] This monograph employs new data to re-assess the relative merits of various contending models that address the change in the probability of dying between the ages of 80 and 120 years of age. The book analyses the population data of thirteen countries, all of which have the sufficiently long data histories necessary to draw solid conclusions. { 124pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; £18.75, 8778383811:9788778383815 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FORM & FUNCTION IN LANGUAGE : Proceedings From the First Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense University, November 1992 [Sharon Millar & Jacob Mey (eds)] { 248pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £18.40, 8778381649:9788778381644 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FRAMES OF SOUTHERN MIND : Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South [Jan Nordby Gretlund] This is a book about politics, writing and thinking in the American South from the 1930's to the 1990's. The period is considered in three frames of Southern mind. From the very beginning, the South was characterised by the classical Stoicism of its planters class. After the Civil War the traditional thinking of the upper-class deeply influenced the everyday ethics of Southern living. Here the particular Southern Stoicism is the subject of chapters on Allen Tate, Katherine Anne Porter, Madison Jones, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy. Southern life has always been bi-racial. The very identity of the South resides in the everyday co-existence of black and white Southerners. How the painful racist history of the South still influences life in the region is obvious in the rare interview with Dr Martin Luther King, Sr. The book shows that everyday life is, of course, full of existential problems. It is argued that these problems have long been the subject of Southern poetry. The final chapters describe how people in the South of the 1990s still struggle daily with private problems which are framed by their awareness of their Stoic and racial heritage. { 286pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £23.50, 8778383978:9788778383976 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| FROM DIALECT TO STANDARD : English in England, 1154-1776 [Hans Frede Nielsen] This is the second volume of a set of three offering a comprehensive survey of the most interesting aspects of the long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The book spans the period up to 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence and the year in which Adam Smith published his 'Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations'. { 300pp, 150x215mm, January 2005; PB, £25.75, 8778389453:9788778389459 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| FROM HOMER TO HYPERTEXT : Studies in Narrative, Literature & Media [Hans Balling & Anders Klinkby Madsen] The essays in this anthology approach literature as communicative structures dependent on media and on rhetorical and narrative modes. Ranging from ancient Greece to the present, the essays are preoccupied with the formal constructions of literature rather than conceptions of particular aesthetic experiences. The approach is similar to the deconstructionist criticism of especially romanticist metaphysics in regarding works of literature as essentially rhetorical artefacts. But unlike the attention towards the aporia of meaning and communicative breakdowns of deconstructivism, they rely on the reconstructive mapping of literary structures as the basis for understanding historical developments and changes in literature. Their investigations in rhetoric and narratology form the backbone in pragmatic arguments concerning the developments in literary history and question historically changeable understandings of literature as a privileged medium for expressing meaning. { 182pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; PB, £13.50, 8778386799:9788778386793 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| FROM SCRIPT TO BOOK : A Symposium [Hans Bekker-Nielsen, marianne Borch & Bengt Algot Sorensen (eds)] Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 15-16 November 1982. { 172pp, 150x220mm, January 1986; PB, £19.50, 8774925687:9788774925682 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| GUIDE TO SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE DANISH WEST INDIES (US VIRGIN ISLANDS), 1671-1917 [Erik Gøbel] The Danish West Indies -- the islands of St Thomas, St John, and St Croix -- were a traditional Caribbean colony, characterised by sugar production, trade, and shipping. The colony was under the Danish flag from 1671 until 1917, since which time the islands have been known as the United States Virgin Islands. The archival sources for the history of the three islands are first and foremost in the Danish National Archives. These records are exceptionally comprehensive and their research potential is enormously rich, as the Danes have been meticulous in documenting almost everything that happened in the colony and in preserving the records. The Danish archival sources are therefore unique historical resources today. The book is a thorough guide to the vast Danish West Indian material in Denmark, including detailed catalogues of the archives of the most important colonial offices in Copenhagen. It also includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the literature on the history of the Danish West Indies. { 350pp, 180x260mm, January 2002; HB, £23.50, 8778387213:9788778387219 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| GUIDE TO TRAINING IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY IN EUROPE [Kim Brøsen (ed)] Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) have been developing as an academic discipline over the last 30 years or so, but its impact on health care services has so far been less impressive than had originally been hoped. In the European region, CPT has developed well in some countries but less well in others. The World Health Organisation (WHO) produced an overall document on CPT in 1970 (1) and some 15 years ago the European Office of WHO started a Europe wide initiative to stimulate the development of CPT. The desire to help the emerging discipline of CPT in the Eastern European countries was strong and at a meeting in Verona in 1991, it was agreed to create an organisation which soon became known as the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT).The importance of education and training to the Association is obvious from the statutes. However, this European Guide is the first outward evidence of the commitment of EACPT to education and training. It describes the nature and organisation of CPT in each country and a map gives the location of the various centres where CPT is undertaken. In addition, each centre of CPT is described in some detail which tells the reader about the main interests of the department concerned, the staff involved, and also gives a short list of relevant research publications. { 340pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; PB, £23.50, 8778384591:9788778384591 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN : A Poet in Time [Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen & Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen] For the first time ever in English, this book presents a wide range of approaches to Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and his works, thereby providing a source of inspiration for further studies and a more extensive knowledge of the world-famous author. Scholars from 15 countries contribute to this volume. The main focus of the contributions is on Andersen in his time, Andersen influences, Andersen in terms of cultural history -- including aspects of literary and social history, genre, linguistics, translation and style. This book is a key to the world of Andersen studies and a key to Andersen's world. { 576pp, 175x250mm, January 1999; PB, £32.75, 8778384494:9788778384492 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN : Between Children's Literature & Adult Literature [Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen & Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen (eds)] On the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary the theme chosen was Hans Christian Andersen between Children's Literature and Adult Literature. At previous conferences focus had been exclusively on Andersen as poet and writer for adults, in which capacity he wrote novels, theatre plays, poems, and travel books, just as his fairy tales and stories were meant for all ages. But faced with the world-wide celebration in 2005 it seemed proper to include the child aspects of his works in the scholarly discussion. In its wide range of themes dealing with both adult and child aspects of Andersen's texts, this volume, consisting of papers read at the Odense Conference in 2005, endeavours to do justice to the whole of Andersen, whose immortal genius has a message for young and old all over the world. { 639pp, 175x255mm, January 2008; HB, £31.00, 8776742563:9788776742560 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT & DIFFIUSION OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY [Peter Bo Poulsen] With a rapid technological change and an increasing number of health technologies emerging in contrast to scarcity of the resources, the decision-makers in the health care sector face a dilemma. This has highlighted the importance of health technology assessment, which as a form of policy research provides input to decision-making in policy and practice. Written as a Ph.D. thesis, this book presents various important aspects of health technology assessment (HTA). A broad range of publications concerning theory and methodology in the area of HTA has been reviewed and empirical studies of HTA and diffusion have been conducted. The empirical studies covered in the book are an international comparison of health technology assessment including Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, as well as empirical studies of the diffusion of laparoscopic technologies in Denmark and the Netherlands. { 290pp, 180x260mm, January 1999; PB, £23.50, 8778384818:9788778384812 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| IN THE NAME OF GOD : The Afgham Connection & the US Was Against Terrorism -- The Story of the Afgham Veterans as the Masterminds Behind 9/11 [Lars Erslev Andersen & Jan Aagaard] Jan Aagaard and Lars Erslev Andersen discuss the evolution of the global terrorist landscape during the past three decades. The most profound developments they identify are, first, the shift in the gravity of terrorism from the Syrian-controlled Biqa Valley in Lebanon to Afghanistan; second the background shift in the epicentre of International terrorism from Afghanistan to Iraq, and third, the newest land of jihad; and fourth the morphing of Al Queda from a group into a global movement. In this important work, Aagaard and Andersen provide the background information, both the understanding and the knowledge for the West to formulate and develop a response beyond operational counter terrorism... { 253pp, 155x230mm, January 2005; PB, £25.75, 8776740609:9788776740603 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| INCLINATE AUREM : Oral Perspectives on Early European Verbal Culture -- A Symposium [Jan Helldén, Minna Skafte Jensen & Thomas Pettitt (eds)] This collection of specially commissioned studies by scholars from the University of Southern Denmark and distinguished guests from Europe and North America comprises six essays dealing directly with oral aspects of the verbal culture of classical and medieval Europe, from Homeric tradition (Jan Helldén and Gregory Nagy), trough Old English and Old Norse poetry (John Miles Foley and Lars Lönnroth), to late-medieval religious texts (Ninna Jørgensen and Ann Moss), together with two essays examining living oral traditions from more recent periods: Inuit storytelling in Greenland (Kirsten Thisted); Turkic epics (Karl Reichl), and one linking the two approaches by exploring the premodern antecedents of modern legends (Henrik Lassen). Introductory remarks on approaches to orality by Thomas Pettitt. { 280pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £23.30, 8778386802:9788778386809 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| INDIA -- PAKISTAN, 2-VOLUME SET : The History of Unsolved Conflicts -- Volume 1, The Historical Part; Volume 2, An Analysis of Some Structural Factors [Lars Blinkenberg] One of the most persistent area of conflict since World War II, the Indo-Pakistan troubles, "celebrated" their 50th anniversary in the second half of 1997 without there being any solution in sight. Since August 1947, when the two new states were created out of British India, there has been almost uninterrupted conflict between India and Pakistan. On three occasions, in 1947, in 1965 and 1971, it has led to war. The first volume of India-Pakistan is a study of the historical background to the conflict, while the second volume provides analysis of the many structural factors, in particular with regard to the political background in India during the first period of conflict. Differences arose out of a post-colonial settlement which was driven by the old British policy of "Divide and Rule", but which was effected in a special way due to the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru's and to the suggestions of the Viceroy Mountbatten. This volume also includes interviews with many, politicians and journalists among them, who have been deeply involved in and have an intimate knowledge of the subcontinent and its recent history. This is a study that provides insights from both a political and historical angel and is topical reading for all interested in understanding the background to this seriously destabilising conflict. It is designed to be read by expert and layman alike. { 769pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; PB, £37.00, 8778382858:9788778382856 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| INDUSTRIOUS CHILDREN : Work & Childhood in the Nordic Countries, 1850-1990 [Ning de Coninck-Smith, Bengt Sandin & Ellen Sandin (eds)] Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good childhood -- that children actually work. Children ought to spend their time playing and attending school. The historians' interest has focused on industrial child labour -- its emergence and its disappearance. But relatively few children worked in industry. Far more children were employed in agriculture and retail trade, if they did not help at home or at the neighbour's. Sometimes they received pay -- other times not -- and they often worked on the edge of the law. The articles in this book examine children's work from the mid-1800's and until the 1990's, because children's work is not a closed chapter in history. But the character and social function of the children's work have been changed over time. This anthology is the result of an inter-Nordic research project about children's work in the Nordic countries involving all the five Nordic countries. { 211pp, 180x260mm, January 1997; HB, £23.30, 8778382696:9788778382696 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| INNOCENCE LOST : Islamism & the Battle Over Values & World Order [Lars Erslev Andersen] "Innocence Lost" examines how the matter of a number of cartoon drawings came to figure prominently on the international agenda. The book provides a description of the situation in the Middle East, including the background of the critical state of affairs in Iraq, which is best described as a state of civil war. With this as its point of departure, the book discusses the relationship between democratisation and Islamism, concluding that the present democratic process in the Middle East is apparently serving to strengthen the Islamists. Furthermore, it analyses the development of al-Qaida from being an organisation to becoming a global ideology enjoying widespread support and appealing to small local groups such as that behind the July 2005 London bombings. The book also analyses the war on terror as part of the global battle over values between a liberal and an Islamist interpretation of the concept of world order. The author poses the question of whether the world is heading towards a global civil war reminiscent of the protracted wars of religion of the late Middle Ages. { 194pp, 155x230mm, June 2007; PB, £20.75, 8776742008:9788776742003 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| INTERDEPENDENCE VERSUS INTEGRATION : Denmark, Scandinavia & Western Europe, 1945-1960 [Thorsten B Olesen (ed)] Co-operation among western European states in the period after World War II has followed two paths. A traditional intergovernmental path demanding no transfer of formal national sovereignty and the integration path aiming at creating "an ever closer union" (as stated in the EEC treaty of 1957) involving formal surrender of state power to common European institutions. This book traces the ramifications of early post-war western European co-operation and integration in an attempt to explain the motives regulating the choice between the alternatives. Within this general framework a substantial part of the contributions deals with the European dilemmas of Denmark; a renowned Euro-sceptic, who during this early post-war period took a more active and serious interest in the Franco-German-Benelux integration initiatives that is generally recognised. { 246pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £23.30, 8778381770:9788778381774 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| INVENTED SELF : An Anti-biography From Documents of Thomas A Edison [David E Nye] { 229pp, 180x260mm, January 1983; PB, £11.50, 8774924621:9788774924623 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| IRREGULARITIES IN MODERN ENGLISH : Second Edition [Erik Hansen & Hans Frede Nielsen] This book is innovative from the first edition in that it reverses the history of the English language, taking present-day English as its point of departure, and historical explanations are given only in so far as they illustrate modern forms. In other words, the book does not presuppose a reading knowledge of Old and Middle English, but aims at providing students with ready answers to questions they may have concerning modern "irregularities". Dutch and German examples and parallels which might shed light on English forms and developments have also been included, comparisons that are meant not only to heighten linguistic awareness on the part of the reader, but also to show what exactly happened in closely related languages. { 382pp, 150x215mm, November 2008; PB, £28.50, 8776742555:9788776742553 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| IS THIS TO BE MY SOUVENIR? : Jazz Photos from the Timme Rosenkrantz Collection 1918-1969 [Frank Büchmann-Møller] This collection of 300 unique photographs, many of them previously unpublished, is a treat for jazz-lovers and comes as a fitting tribute both to the golden age of jazz and to Timme Rosenkrantz, the prominent figure of Danish jazz, who stands behind the collection and who in his way embodied the spirit of that age. The book contains portraits of such well-known musicians as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Glenn Miller. Just as much space, however, is given to names which are less well-known today. { 202pp, 230x230mm, January 2000; HB, £30.60, 8778384656:9788778384652 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| KIERKEGAARD MADE IN JAPAN [Finn Hauberg Mortensen] This is the first book dealing with the of Søren Kierkegaard in Japan. It may seem strange that the Danish philosopher, theologian and writer, who is renowned in the western world as individualist and existentialist, has been read and studied in Japan since the turn of the century. The aim of this study is to explain why the Japanese came to read Kierkegaard, how several religious and non-religious lines of reception developed, and why he is still of current interest in post-modern Japan. When Kierkegaard lived (1813-55) behind the city walls of Copenhagen, Japan was still isolated. As the Empire entered the modern world, Kierkegaard's conceptions of self and identity, parts of his philosophy of religion, became important for the development of Japanese thinking in the twentieth century. This book tells the story of his influence -- of its many currents within Japan, of the bridge between Japan and the West, and of the light this reception throws back on the Dane himself. This account is not only a tale of religious movements and affiliations apparently as diverse as Buddhism and Christianity, as well as of their many varieties and sources, but it must also be situated in relation to the broader framework of humanist studies. The approach here incorporates aspects of historical, sociological, and philosophical research in order to describe the reception of Kierkegaard. In relation to the historical survey of the main lines since the turn of the century, the book includes seventeen dialogues with leading scholars on their work, covering the Japanese making of Kierkegaard during three generations. { 336pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £23.30, 8778381029:9788778381026 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| LINGUIST'S LIFE : An English Translation of Otto Jespersen's Autobiography with Notes, Photos & a Bibliography [Arne Juul, Hans F Nielsen & Jorgen Erik Nielsen (eds)] This is an English translation of the famous Danish linguist Otto Jespersen's autobiography with notes, photos and a bibliography. His autobiography, published in 1938, contains a great deal of information on Jespersen's multi-faceted linguistic activities. Because many events and people will be unfamiliar to present-day readers, the English translation has been copiously annotated. The book is well illustrated with photos, many of which have never before been accessible to the public. { 380pp, 180x260mm, January 1995; PB, £28.00, 8778381320:9788778381323 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| LITERACY IN MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE [Pernille Hermann] Over recent decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies, and questions concerning the uses of literacy, the number of literates, differing writing systems, modes of communication and the interaction between orality and literacy have occupied researchers from various disciplines. The aim of this volume is to introduce Scandinavian literacy to the international field of research. On the one hand it seeks to underline important aspects possibly unique to Scandinavia, and, on the other hand, to provide a basis that can contribute to a better general understanding of literacy. Because of the volume's interdisciplinary approach, a relatively wide range of material is invoked to illuminate the subject matter. The thirteen papers, written by philologists, historians and archaeologists, discuss not only written material, but also orality and what might be categorised as 'visual literacy'. The papers deal with both images and ornamented archaeological findings and linguistic phenomena. Among the written material investigated we find prose and poetry, as well as religious, juridical and administrative texts. Topics considered include both the Latin and runic alphabets, pragmatic literacy concerning legal and commercial transactions and quantitative aspects of literacy. Also considered are various aspects of relevance for literacy studies in particular and Medieval Studies in general, such as problems of definition and methodological considerations. { 355pp, December 2005; HB, £14.50, 8776740404:9788776740405 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| LONGEVITY RECORDS : Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, & Fish [James R Carey & Debra S Judge] This book is the world’s largest compendium of documented life spans in vertebrates. Record life spans for over 3000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish indicate wild or captive status, sex (where available) and are linked to source references. A brief introduction addresses the concept of life span, summarises methods for data gathering, criteria for inclusion, and provides a graphic summarisation of within and among group variation in record life spans. The data is organised into four main tables: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and fishes. Each data table is preceded by a brief introduction summarising important aspects of the life history of important subgroups (e.g. orders). Tables of life spans are organised alphabetically by order, family and genus. Scientific and common name indices facilitate finding record life spans for particular organisms. The book is useful in demography, fisheries and wildlife biology, ecology, population and evolutionary biology, and gerontology. { 240pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; HB, £18.75, 8778385393:9788778385390 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| MADISON JONES' GARDEN OF INNOCENCE [Jan Nordby Gretlund (ed)] Madison Jones is the author of eleven novels, among them are The Innocent, An Exile (film: I Walk the Line), A Cry of Absence, Season of the Strangle, and Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light winner of the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing. His novel Herod's Wife appeared in 2003. Madison Jones is a central figure in American literature, but paradoxically not well-known. He writes about conflicts between the native and the alien, tradition and progress, and innocence and experience. Like his fellow-novelists George Garrett and David Madden, who have contributed to this volume, Jones shares the regret at the loss of inherited values. He has been praised by the critics Ashley Brown, Monroe Spears, and Lewis P. Simpson, as an important transitional writer. And according to contemporary writers Madison Smartt Bell, William Hoffman, and Lee Smith, his novels are lessons in the possibility of the immediate. As the essays in this collection show, Madison Jones has a dark view of human experience, but also self-knowledge and compassion. He has succeeded in finding his own voice and has created an emphatically moral world that transcends its Southern particulars. Essays by Jewel Spears Brooker, George Garrett, Richard Gray, Jan Nordby Gretlund, Madison Jones, Lewis A. Lawson, David Madden, and Hans H. Skei. Plus interviews and a Madison Jones bibliography. { 210pp, 155x230mm, January 2005; HB, £23.25, 8776740013:9788776740016 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| MECHANISMS OF AGING & MORTALITY : The Search for New Paradigms [Kenneth G Manton & Anatoli I Yashin] This monograph reviews the epidemiological, demographic, and biological basis of population models of human mortality. These investigations were motivated by the desire to better understand the regularities of survival processes among adults -- especially at extreme late ages where empirical data is currently limited. The monograph discusses biological mechanisms, which shape the age-patterns of mortality. The effects of an individual health state, susceptibility to diseases and death, or physical frailty on changes in late age survival are also investigated. { 174pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; HB, £18.75, 8778385075:9788778385079 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE : A Symposium [Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Marianne Borch & Bengt Algot Sorensen (eds)] Proceedings of the Third International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 20-21 November 1978. { 138pp, 150x220mm, January 1979; PB, £14.80, 8774922998:9788774922995 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT : From Bad to Worse to War [Lars Blinkenberg] In 1998 the Middle East Conflict celebrated its 50th anniversary and now, eight years later, no final general settlement is in sight. Despite peace agreements between Israel and two Arab countries in the nineteen nineties (Egypt and Jordan) and a part-settlement with the Palestinian authorities or PLO in 1993, violence reached its highest level in 2002/2004, and has still not abated, albeit decreased recently. The withdrawal of the Israeli forces and settlers from occupied Gaza is a step in the right direction, but too many uncertainties remain. Just now the political situation is confused in Israel. The Middle East Conflict gives a clear-cut study of the conflict from 1948-2005. It should be fairly easy for readers without any special foreknowledge to read if they have a keen interest in political matters and want to understand this long drawn conflict that over the years developed into what the author describes as war. May be more dramatic than necessary, but the conflict has had a serious repercussions anywhere in the area conflict -- including a damaging civil war in Lebanon -- and also in a larger area than the one this study outs its focus on, namely the direct involved neighbours of Israel and the Jewish nation itself. { 273pp, 180x260mm, January 2006; PB, £27.80, 8776740498:9788776740498 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| MIGRANTS, WORK & THE WELFARE STATE [Torben Tranes & Klaus F Zimmermann] The aim of this book is to uncover non-Western immigrants' integration and living conditions in Denmark and Germany comparatively. The results are presented by leading labour market and integration researchers as a joint Danish-German research project. { 436pp, 180x260mm, January 2004; HB, £27.80, 8778387744:9788778387745 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| MONSTERS, MARVELS & MIRACLES : Imaginary Journeys & Landscapes in the Middle Ages [Leif Søndergaard & Rasmus Thorning Hansen (eds)] Text in English and German. People at all levels in medieval society were extremely fascinated by the strange and unknown in the world around them. They tried in various ways to cope with the unfamiliar mysterious, monstrous, marvellous, and miraculous forces in order to understand them and give them a coherent meaning. Voyages were undertaken to remote parts of Asia. Some journeys were real, while others were mere "armchair travels". Most people took the descriptions in travel accounts to be the ultimate truth about the mysterious places in lands far away from Europe. Scholars formed a general view of the God-created cosmos and its seemingly mysterious character, expressed in encyclopaedic works, summae, and in medieval maps, mappaemundi. The majority of the medieval maps were not geographical in a modern sense but cosmological, showing the world from Genesis to the Last Judgement. "Monsters Marvels and Miracles" is a collection of 8 articles that brings the reader on a journey through the maps, the voyages and the ideas of cosmos that influenced the world view of the people of the Middle Ages. { 210pp, 155x230mm, January 2005; PB, £23.30, 8778388953:9788778388957 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NARRATIVES OF REMEMBRANCE [Marianne Børch (ed)] The past, we know, informs us. Its texture has been just as real to its time as we feel the present to be for us. And yet, despite its immense importance for establishing and understanding our identity, the reality of the past is curiously inaccessible. This book assembles seven specialists from the fields of history, cultural studies and literature and allows them to debate, in some cases vigorously, the issues of truth and fiction raised by attempts to recreate the past. The debate highlights the formal mechanisms, the imaginative transformations, the ideological commitments whereby history is constructed. { 148pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £14.00, 8778384974:9788778384973 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NATURE & LIFEWORLD : Theoretical & Practical Metaphysics [Carsten Bengt-Pedersen & Niels Thomassen] Text in English and Danish. A persistent theme of the 20th century has been a critique of metaphysics. But the limitations of this critique are manifesting themselves more and more clearly. Among them is the fact that both inner and outer nature have form and structure. Philosophy of nature becomes unavoidable. The lifeworld of man cannot be thoroughly understood without metaphysical reflection. The theme of this volume is the metaphysical questions about man and nature and the relationship between them, as these questions emerge in the human lifeworld beyond the critique of metaphysics of the 20th century. The contributions provide a comprehensive elucidation of the theoretical and practical problems of metaphysics. They range from the metaphysics of the ecological crisis and the concept of progress to the nature of man and the foundation of science in the human lifeworld. { 345pp, 180x260mm, January 2002; PB, £11.35, 8778383110:9788778383112 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NEW TRENDS IN THE HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS [Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Stig Andur Pedersen & Lise Mariane Sonne-Hansen] This book is a collection of papers presented at the conference New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, 6-8 August 1998. The purpose of the meeting was to present some of the new ideas on the study of mathematics, its character and the nature of its development. During the last decades work in history and philosophy of mathematics has led to several new original views on mathematics. Both new methods and angles of study have been introduced, and old views of, say, the nature of mathematical theories and proofs have been challenged. For instance, disciplines as etnohistorical studies of mathematics and the sociology of mathematics have resulted in several new insights, and classical historians of mathematics are also experimenting with new perspectives. In a similar way philosophy of mathematics has witnessed rather deep changes. Classical foundational studies have been challenged by new broader perspectives. The aim was to provide a forum within which historians of mathematics, philosophers, and mathematicians could exchange ideas and discuss different new approaches in the history and philosophy of mathematics. The book includes papers by Joan Richards, Henk J. M. Bos, Donald MacKenzie, Arthur Jaffe, Jody Azzouni and Paulus Gerdes. It also includes an extended introduction. { 161pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £12.00, 8778386063:9788778386069 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NO SMALL ACHIEVEMENT : Special Operations Executive & the Danish Resistance 1940-1945 [Knud J V Jespersen] This book follows the build-up of the Danish Section with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the top-secret sabotage organisation, which was part of the resistance movement in World War II. On the basis of archives just accessible in London it has finally been possible to describe the Danish Resistance Movement during the Second World War from an English point of view. From the beginning of 1940 the Special Operations Executive developed from an idea into a world-wide organisation of about 13,000 men and women of whom about 5,000 were active behind enemy lines. The intention was that the organisation should support the resistance movements in the occupied territories as part of Britain’s struggle for survival against Hitler's Germany. Denmark, at first, was not too keen on resistance and this book follows the laborious build-up of the Danish SOE Section from a few isolated acts of sabotage into a comprehensive resistance movement. { 594pp, 180x255mm, January 2004; HB, £10.00, 8778386918:9788778386915 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NORDIC LIGHT [Thomas Bredsdorff, Søren Peter Hansen & Anne-Marie Mai] "Nordic Light" mainly comprises Scandinavian contributions to two conferences convened by The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003, and at the Research Center on European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany, in 2005. The theme of the former conference was the Global Eighteenth Century, that of the second one, Religion and Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was nothing if not an age of networking. People travelled in real or imaginary worlds in order to connect, deride, improve, and learn. This was the age when the notion of universality took shape; ideas travelled because if rights and wrongs are universal, sound ideas must be accessible to all and unsound ones challenged by being exposed to foreign scrutiny. The various contributions show facets of Scandinavian research into the 18th century. The need to see Danish, Norwegian and Swedish culture and literature in a larger context is a characteristic of recent research, as the included essays will demonstrate. { 198pp, 150x220mm, December 2007; PB, £20.45, 8776742709:9788776742706 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| NORDIC LIGHTS : New Initiatives in Health Care Systems [Anita Alban & Terkel Christiansen (eds)] The quest for the holy grail in the form of a more efficient, still public dominated health service without selling out in terms of accessibility has begun, and within recent years a range of initiatives to promote change within financing and organisation has taken place. The Nordic crusade which strives to achieve efficiency through a range of incentives within a public provision of health services – even if just begun – will provide lessons to be learnt, through its pitfalls and achievements, which will support policy processes within and among Nordic countries and beyond. The book includes contributions from all five Nordic countries. The objective of the book is to provide the information which makes it possible for professionals and decisions-makers at the policy level to get a better insight for assessing the Nordic way of going about the financing and organisation of health services. For each country the reader is provided with a status quo description supplemented by new initiatives assessed by economists working in the health services in the individual country. The contributions for each country focus on both the primary care sector and the hospital sector. In all countries there is a dominant tendency to provide health care through the public sector. The coverage of the population is universal and is financed through taxation. The political emphasis on equity means that private activity is limited. During recent years the issue of waiting lists has been on the political agenda. Today it is not possible for citizens who are willing to pay to avoid waiting time. A number of various initiatives have been trying to deal with this. { 362pp, 180x260mm, January 1995; PB, £23.30, 8778381444:9788778381446 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| NORSE-DERIVED VCOABULARY IN LATE OLD ENGLISH TEXTS : Wulfstan's Works, A Case Study [Sara M Pons-Sanz] The ancient Romans believed that the Gods sent signs of future events to them through the flight of birds, meteorological disturbances and other natural phenomena. These signs influenced every sphere of ancient life, both public and private, from a state's decision to go to war or make peace, hold an election or meet a public crisis to an individual's business, marriage or travel plans. The articles in this book illustrate how the various Roman divinatory techniques were inter-woven into the structures of ancient society as well as how they were used in literary contexts. The intriguing question of the alleged doublethink among Roman intellectuals in their attitude to Divination is an important theme taken up in this book. { 318pp, 150x215mm, March 2007; PB, £25.20, 8776741966:9788776741969 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| OUTLINE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION : 3rd Revised Edition [Niels Davidsen-Nielsen] { 156pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.70, 8778385520:9788778385529 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| PARTY SOVEREIGNTY & CITIZEN CONTROL : Selecting Candidates for Parliamentary Elections in Denmark, Finland, Iceland & Norway [Hanne Marthe Narud, Mogens N Pedersen & Henry Valens (eds)] The nomination process has been called "the secret garden of politics"-- and for good reasons. The process by which candidates for election are being screened and selected is among the least understood and researched political phenomena, even though this process is so closely linked to the power structure within political parties. Nominations are mechanisms for selecting candidates, but also for holding the incumbent delegates responsible. In this book, nomination processes in four Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway -- are analysed and evaluated as instruments of democracy. The authors compare institutions, procedures and unwritten norms. The book in particular addresses questions about the citizens' ability to influence the nomination processes. The process is not only modelled in traditional terms of representation, but also as a principal-agent relationship. Despite great institutional similarities, the nomination processes and their outcomes vary considerably across the four countries. In particular, significant differences are found with regard to the extent of citizen control. The book provides a first mapping of this central feature of Nordic politics and thus also serves the comparative purpose of differentiating between otherwise similar political systems. { 254pp, 150x220mm, January 2002; PB, £28.00, 8778386926:9788778386922 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| PATRON & PAVEMENTS IN LATE ANTIQUITY [Signe Isager & Birte Poulsen (eds)] For over a century the mosaic floors of the late "Roman Villa" in Halikarnassos have captured attention of scholars, and this volume contains a broad spectrum of contributions on architecture and the decorative arts, predominantly in relation to the Eastern provinces of the later Roman Empire. In 1990, fresh archaeological investigations were initiated in ancient Halikarnassos in collaboration between Odense University and the Archaeological Museum of Bodrum. While previous Danish surveys at Halikarnassos (1966-1977) concentrated on the town's most famous monument, the Maussolleion, the scope of the new project is broader. Its purpose is to obtain information about the town -- about its street plan, public buildings, monuments, houses, inscriptions, pottery and other finds, dating from its foundation until Late Antiquity. { 160pp, 215x280mm, January 1997; HB, £23.30, 8778382971:9788778382979 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| PERSPECTIVES ON FOREIGN & SECOND LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY [Dorte Albrechtsen, Birgit Henriksen, Inger M Mees & Erik Poulsen (eds)] This book honours a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country and is arranged in four sections that reflect her interests. The structure of the book is intended to reflect Kirsten Haastrup's research interests and her involvement in pedagogical issues and language policy. It has been divided into four sections: research methods and perspectives, vocabulary acquisition research, pedagogical issues and language policy. { 304pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; PB, £23.30, 8778383854:9788778383853 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| PLINY ON ART & SOCIETY : The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art [Jacob Isager] The first complete examination of all those sections of Pliny's Natural History that deal with art, artistic techniques, works of art and with Pliny's reasons for discussing art. It covers the extraction of gold, silver and marble, the discovery of bronze and painting. { 255pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £28.00, 8774927949:9788774927945 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| POPULATION DATA AT A GLANCE : Shaded Contour Maps of Demographic Surfaces Over Age & Time [James W Vaupel, Wang Zhenglian, Kirill F Andreev & Anatoli I Yashin] Book & Disk. This volume is an array of demographic data which can often be pictured in an intelligible and graphically striking way by a shaded contour map. The data might pertain to population levels or to rates of fertility, marriage, divorce, migration, morbidity, or mortality. Most often the data are structured by age and time (eg: age-specific death rates over time). Shaded contour maps permit visualisation of such demographic surfaces and offer a panoramic view impossible to obtain from the usual graphs of levels or rates at selected ages over time or a selected times over age. Contour maps are particularly effective in highlighting patterns in the interaction of age, period, and cohort effects. This monograph presents a bouquet of shaded contour maps to suggest the broad potential of their use in population studies. The value of such maps lies in their substantive import. Graphic designs, E R Tufte concluded, should give "visual access to the subtle and difficult, that is, the revelation of the complex". Demographic surfaces can be particularly complex. A mortality surface, for example, might be defined over a century of age and a century of time, comprising 10,000 date points that may vary over four orders of magnitude. Shaded contour maps are an arresting, efficient, and clear means of giving demographers visual access to such data. William Playfair, the pioneer of graphic methods for presenting statistical data, argued that with a good visual display "as much information may be obtained in five minutes as would require whole days to imprint on the memory, in a lasting manner, by a table of figures". The 100 shaded contour maps in this monograph summarise more than a half million data points in a memorable, revealing manner. { 98pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; HB, £28.00, 8778383382:9788778383389 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| READ ARABIC : An Arabic Reader for Arabic Students at All Levels [Gunna Funder Hansen & Saliha Marie Fettah] Up till now material intended for novice readers of Arabic have been difficult to acquire for students as well as teachers. The texts in this book are intended for a wide section of students and almost no matter what linguistic level you have at the outset the materials may function as the basis of a diversified reading practice. The book is made up of Arabic reading material at three different levels, which comprise different genres, among which are (eg: short stories, concise descriptions of regions and countries as well as a few letters). The purpose of this is to give the reader insight into a varied selection of different written styles. { 98pp, 155x230mm, June 2007; PB, £11.00, 8776741613:9788776741617 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| REALITY LOST & FOUND : An Essay on the Realism-Antirealism Controversy [Søren Harnow Klausen] Is there a world out there, independently of the way we experience it, think of it or talk about it? If so, can we know what it is like? These questions have been a central concern of philosophy throughout most of its history, and they continue to be the subject of an intense debate between realists and anti-realists. In this clearly written and comprehensive book, Søren Harnow Klausen presents an argument for realism about the external world, but also attempts to take the antirealist challenge seriously: a sensible realist must acknowledge the force of the sceptical objections and avoid overstating her own case. The book covers a wide range of themes, from the historical origins of antirealism and the views of Berkeley, Kant, Husserl and the logical positivists to the most recent developments in epistemology and relevant empirical research in psychology, anthropology and linguistics. { 574pp, 180x260mm, January 1940; HB, £25.00, 8778388627:9788778388629 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN EARLY MODERN SCANDINAVIA [Finn-Einar Aliassen, Jørgen Mikkelsen & Bjørn Poulsen (eds)] In the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time. The differences in voting behaviour, language, religious views, social structure and attitudes between districts, regions, and provinces within each country are often striking. In addition to these internal regions, there are also greater, transnational regions, cutting across state and national boundaries, and incorporating parts of several present-day states. The heterogeneous body of recent and ongoing research in regional history provides the foundation and raison d'être of the present volume. The editors have brought together a number of the most active and experienced practitioners in this field, inviting them to present some of the most interesting results from their own research and readings in regional history, in a form accessible also to a non-Nordic readership. We decided to concentrate on the early modern period, in a wide sense, ranging from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. This is both the period which seems to be best covered by research and publications, and, even more important, it is a crucial period in the integration of the Nordic regions into wider economic, cultural and political units and networks nationally and internationally: the nation-state, the modern world economy, even civilisation itself! { 287pp, 180x260mm, January 2001; PB, £28.00, 8778386586:9788778386588 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| RETURN OF GOD : Theological Perspectives in Contemporary Philosophy [Niels Grønkjær (ed)] God is not dead, after all. Not, that is, if we are to subscribe to a number of trends in contemporary philosophy. This is all the more remarkable in the light of a long tradition in philosophy dating back to the 18th Century Enlightenment, dictating that religion should be regarded with condescension. "The Return of God" marks a renewed determination to enter into dialogue and presents a number of prominent philosophers who take an interest in elements from Christian theology. "The Return of God" discusses philosophy and theology in the twentieth century and in Antiquity as well as gnosis, secularisation, the history of salvation and hermeneutics. A wide range of themes are joined in the effort to try to provide an answer to the question: in what sense can the Judeo-Christian tradition have any decisive influence on philosophy today? { 159pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £14.00, 8778383315:9788778383310 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE? : The Power State of 16th & 17th Century Scandinavia [Leon Jespersen (ed)] In the 16th and 17th centuries, the states of Europe underwent a series of changes which created the foundation for the state of today. The Nordic countries played their part in that process, but also demonstrated differences relative to each other. Scandinavia appears in this context as an interesting area for study. Three Nordic researchers have analysed some of these changes and their consequences at the level of the state, the region and the local district. During the 16th and 17th centuries the peoples of the Nordic countries experienced a strengthening of state power which imposed upon them increased taxes and other burdens, not least as a result of the frequent wars of the time. Ambitions to appear as a power-state and to try increasingly to regulate society and impose discipline on subjects took the form of an interplay between the power of the state and the local community which exposed the limited ability of the state to insist upon its will. { 383pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; PB, £28.00, 8778384079:9788778384072 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| RISE & FALL OF A ROMAN NOBLE FAMILY : The Domith Ahenobarbi 196BC-AD68 [Jesper Carlsen] This is the first monograph of the Domitii Ahenobarbi and fills a gap in our knowledge of the Roman aristocracy. The study is more than a traditional genealogy and family history. It furnishes a collective biography of one Roman senatorial family and contributes to a new and more profound understanding of Roman political, religious, social and economic life by focusing on the activities of the protagonists on a wide front. { 260pp, 180x260mm, January 2006; PB, £25.95, 8778389968:9788778389961 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| SALMAKIS INSCRIPTION & HELLENISTIC HALIKARNASSOS [Signe Isager & Poul Pedersen] In 1995 the Turkish authorities made an important discovery on the Salmakis Promontory west of the entrance to the harbour of Bodrum -- ancient Halikarnassos. Remains of walls and mosaic floors dating to Hellenistic and Roman times were found, and on one of the walls there was a well-preserved Greek inscription, now known as The Salmakis Inscription. The inscription was found to be a previously unknown Hellenistic poem in which Aphrodite reveals what Halikarnassos has to be proud of. Her poetic account includes famous authors born in Halikarnassos. The text leaves no doubt that the location of the inscription was the famous Salmakis Fountain inseparably connected to the name of Hermaphroditos. The unparalleled inscription aroused great interest and discussion when published. An international symposium was held at the Castle of St Peter in Bodrum, where specialists representing numismatics, ancient history, literature, philology, religion, epigraphy and archaeology offered their views on the inscription and its implications for our understanding of the Hellenistic world. This book contains the contributions to that symposium. Apart from studies directly concerning the Salmakis inscription there are other articles on Hellenistic Halikarnassos, partly based on already well known evidence partly on new material. { 237pp, 215x280mm, January 2004; HB, £23.30, 8778388236:9788778388230 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| SAXO & THE BALTIC REGION : A Symposium [Tore Nyberg (ed)] Saxo's great history of the Danes also deals with their wars against peoples living on the opposite coasts of the Baltic. At a symposium organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Southern Denmark scholars from several countries presented the results of their research in this field. This collection of articles explores the way Saxo contrasted Danes to Wends, Prussians, Balts and Germans, and the historical background to his strongly biased viewpoints. As a literary construction, Saxo's work gives evidence of a highly sophisticated ideology of ethnic and religious balance in his treatment of these neighbours with whom the Danes lived in a state of steady confrontation. { 172pp, 150x220mm, January 2004; PB, £16.30, 8778389283:9788778389282 , University Press of Southern Denmark } |
| SECRET ALLIANCE, VOLUME 1 [Jørgen Hæstrup] "Secret Alliance" contains in three volumes a detailed study of the Danish Resistance Movement during the Second World War. The study is based upon a comprehensive collection of documents, which survived illegality and were found and made available by the author who, parallel to his search, procured accounts from leading members of the Resistance to fill unavoidable gaps in the contemporary material. The books deal with Danish Resistance in all its aspects, and while describing the gradual development of resistance activity they analyse Denmark's peculiar situation, formally never at war with Germany, but de facto participating in the common Allied struggle and therefore considered by friend and foe as an active partner and opponent. Great emphasis is laid upon the movement's very close connections with the outside world, especially its intimate co-operation with the Western powers, canalised mainly through the British SOE organisation. The books also deal with the political structure of the movement, its relations to the official political circles, and its efforts to bring an official policy of negotiation with the occupying power to its downfall – an attitude which in 1944 led to the recognition from the Soviet Union of "Fighting Denmark", the movement thereby paving the way to a formal recognition of Denmark as an Ally. { 324pp, 155x230mm, January 1976; PB, £12.50, 8774921681:9788774921684 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| SECRET ALLIANCE, VOLUME 2 [Jørgen Hæstrup] "Secret Alliance" contains in three volumes a detailed study of the Danish Resistance Movement during the Second World War. The study is based upon a comprehensive collection of documents, which survived illegality and were found and made available by the author who, parallel to his search, procured accounts from leading members of the Resistance to fill unavoidable gaps in the contemporary material. The books deal with Danish Resistance in all its aspects, and while describing the gradual development of resistance activity they analyse Denmark's peculiar situation, formally never at war with Germany, but de facto participating in the common Allied struggle and therefore considered by friend and foe as an active partner and opponent. Great emphasis is laid upon the movement's very close connections with the outside world, especially its intimate co-operation with the Western powers, canalised mainly through the British SOE organisation. The books also deal with the political structure of the movement, its relations to the official political circles, and its efforts to bring an official policy of negotiation with the occupying power to its downfall – an attitude which in 1944 led to the recognition from the Soviet Union of "Fighting Denmark", the movement thereby paving the way to a formal recognition of Denmark as an Ally. { 394pp, 155x230mm, January 1976; PB, £12.50, 8774921940:9788774921943 , University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) } |
| SECRET ALLIANCE, VOLUME 3 [Jørgen Hæstrup] "Secret Alliance" contains in three volumes a detailed study of the Danish Resistance Movement during the Second World War. The study is based upon a comprehensive collection of documents, which survived illegality and were found and made available by the author who, parallel to his search, procured accounts from leading members of the Resistance to fill unavoidable gaps in the contemporary material. The books deal with Danish Resistance in all its aspects, and while describing the gradual development of resistance activity they analyse Denmark's peculiar situation, formally never at war with Germany, but de facto participating in the common Allied struggle and therefore considered by friend and foe as an active partner and opponent. Great emphasis is laid upon the movement's very close connections with |