What is historical archaeology? What are the challenges facing archaeologists looking at the remains of the last 500 years? What are the issues for...

Because of its rapid growth, ubiquitous popular culture, and global power, almost everyone knows many things about the United States. But often the...

In public debate and academic writings the American and European welfare states are often portrayed as inhabiting completely different welfare regi...

Ammonia emissions from farming are causing environmental problems on local and regional scale in Europe and elsewhere. These emissions also reduce ...

Six articles deal with aspects of changes in the Medieval town, interactions in the physical and social development of the town, including infrastr...

The Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnússon (1663-1730) - Arnas Magnæus in Latinised form - spent much of his life building up what is by ...

Several critics have been intrigued by the gap between late Victorian poetry and the more "modern" poetry of the 1920s. This book attempts to get t...

This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invi...

This book deals with a fascinating but until recently largely neglected area of late medieval Icelandic literature: the indigenous prose romances, ...

This study is an investigation of a subject never explored before: the translations and the reception in Denmark of the most important English poet...

So far, research on the welfare state has usually neglected children and childhood. In the rare attempts to include childhood in welfare state anal...

This paper examines parental influence on school children´s everyday activities that are related to a healthy or an unhealthy lifestyle. The paper ...

The Danish National Museum's collection of lacquer works from East Asia comprises some 350 works, more than half of which come from China. The purp...

This book approaches the famous star in a manner that recognizes the impossibility of ever locating the "real" Marilyn Monroe. It gets close to the...

Researching adult learning combines the very best presentations from the Third Nordic Conference on Adult Learning. This volume covers the broad fi...

Historians have always been studying contested places. Most studies of empires, ancient civilisations and cultures, of nation states, wars and dipl...

The essays in this book are a selection of papers delivered at the symposium Creating the Medieval Saga in Bergen 2005. The essays have been revise...

The main focuses of this analysis are the significance of conditions of life for the tendency of individuals towards criminality, and the consequen...

The life cycle of a coin is long - one might even argue that its existence as a coin is only a minor part of the recycling of metal. The present in...

The Roman coins found within the area of modern Denmark form the empirical basis of the present study. It is my intention to present and discuss th...

This book takes as its point of departure diverse conventions of and perspectives on practices and discourses in dance. The anthology is strongly m...

How did Denmark, shaken to its core by doubt and misfortune as the 20th century began, rise to assume its pre-eminent place in the modern social-de...

Business and economic historians will greatly welcome the publication of Per Hansen’s masterly history of Danish modern furniture. The originality ...

This is a book dealing with some of the most recent changes and transformations within the realms of death, dying, bereavement and care in contempo...