When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and li…

N.F.S. Grundtvig, one of the chief shapers of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was…

When Johan Furuhjelm was offered the governorship of Russian America in 1858, the 37-year-old Finnish officer found himself in a quandary. He needed a…

As the 20th century drew to a close, the trend to globalisation became the focus of vigorous debate across the economic and political spectrum. It fas…

This is a book of stories about sports persons: sports stars, less-known athletes and relatively unknown physical education teachers and sports scient…

To commemorate the centennial of the Nobel Prize in 2001, and in light of recent, critical Nobel research, this volume provides an historical analysis…

Grundtvig's viewpoint on human nature and human society, on the relationship between national and international community, on the inner dynamic which…

P.O. Brøndsted (1780-1842) was the father of classical archaeology in Denmark, and his writings won great acclaim all over Europe. He travelled in Gre…

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