A History of the Swedish People: From Renaissance to Revolution: 002 (Reprints) - Hardcover

Book 2 of 2: A History of the Swedish People

Moberg, Wilhelm

 
9780880293136: A History of the Swedish People: From Renaissance to Revolution: 002 (Reprints)

Synopsis

Published in 1989 by Dorset Press of New York in English from the 1971 original by Swedish novelist turned historian Vilhelm Moberg, this 268 page hardback volume follows on from the first volume by Dorset Press, NY: A History of the Swedish People: From Prehistory to the Renaissance. Volume 1. ISBN 0880293128. This 2nd volume contains the following chapters: Foreword; Engelbrekt - a great man who was small of stature; our daily bark-bread; thrice king; how Swedes learned to hate Danes; The Forests and Popular Liberties; The Three Stures; A Warrior People's Dream of Peace; Tyrant I: Christian II; Tyrant II: Gustav I; Life in the Villages; The Women Outside History; The Dacke Rising - Our Greatest Popular Revolt. Front cover shows a woodcut from Olaus Magnus "Historia 1555"

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About the Author

Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1972) was one of Sweden's greatest writers of the twentieth century and is well known for his remarkable The Emigrants (1949), a four-volume epic tale of Swedish immigration to America. Paul Britten Austin is a translator and historian.Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was an acclaimed Swedish economist and politician. He won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1974.

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