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Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990 — Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance
Koivunen, Leila; Merivirta, Raita
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
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This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated...

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Fibula, Fabula, Fact — The Viking Age in Finland
Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Tolley, Clive
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Were there Vikings in Finland? Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion...

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The Enemy Within — Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808
Koskivirta, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland...

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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
Karonen, Petri; Hakanen, Marko
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720 provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the "power-state...

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Novels, Histories, Novel Nations — Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia
Kaljundi, Linda; Laanes, Eneken; Pikkanen, Ilona
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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Since its emergence along with Western nationalism, historical fiction has been one of the key forms for constructing national histories - and it has not lost its importance even today. This volume highlights the cultural work historical fiction performed in Finland and Estonia ca...

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The Springs of Democracy — National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919
Ihalainen, Pasi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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During the First World War, conflicts between the people's sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy...

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Modernisation in Russia since 1900
Kangaspuro, Markku; Smith, Jeremy
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more 'advanced' countries of Europe...

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Dynamic Finland — The Political System and the Welfare State
Pesonen, Pertti; Riihinen, Olavi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult wartime experiences, this...

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Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts — Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War
Kivimäki, Ville; Karonen, Petri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939-1945 has made it difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War,...

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Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital — The History of a Rural Lending Library c. 1860 - 1920
Kotilainen, Sofia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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This book studies the "grey area" of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people's libraries in one area of Central Finland, in the parish of Kivijärvi and its neighbouring parishes...

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On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland — Societal Perspectives
Sinnemäki, Kaius; Portman, Anneli; Tilli, Jouni; Nelson, Robert H.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland by drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective from the social sciences and humanities. Involving researchers from a wide range of such fields has made it possible to provide fresh and...

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Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions — Gender and Sexuality in Niskavuori Films
Koivunen, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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Films are essential to national imagination and promotional publicity markets "domestic films" not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. When assessing new films, reviewers make reference to other...

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Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy
Kurunmäki, Jussi; Strang, Johan
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
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Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings...

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Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City
Clark, Peter; Niemi, Marjaana; Niemelä, Jari
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
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Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has...

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Fashion Meets Socialism — Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
Gronow, Jukka; Zhuravlev, Sergey
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organizations of fashion design with fashion houses and ateliers all over the country...

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Across the Oceans — Development of Overseas Business Inforrmation Transmission 1815-1875
Laakso, Seija-Riitta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
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In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission...

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Lake Ladoga — The Coastal History of the Greatest Lake in Europe
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Land, Isaac
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
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This multidisciplinary volume offers a spectacular view and the first overall presentation of the history of Lake Ladoga, of the greatest lake in Europe. The focus of the study is on the northern parts of the shores of the lake, which belonged to Finland's rule between 1812 and 1944...

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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790)
Wolff, Charlotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images and loyalties during the Age of Liberty and under the rule of Gustav III...

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Moving in the USSR — Western anomalies and Northern wilderness
Hakamies, Pekka
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula...

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Handwritten Newspapers — An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods
Droste, Heiko; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. The primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice...

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Strategies of sanity and survival — religious responses to natural disasters in the middle ages
Hanska, Jussi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Natural disasters have long been a neglected subject in the study of history. At most they have been casually mentioned as a background material for political or social history. During the 90s this state of affairs has slowly began to change...

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