This book comprises a number of cultural-historical and ethnographic studies of the history of sport in the Nordic countries. The studies examine the contribution made by sport to the development of Scandinavian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and analyze the ways in which sport became interwoven with the social life of citizens in the various Scandinavian countries in the twentieth century. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is not on the organizational history of sport, nor is it...
Fremtiden bragede ind over Danmark. I 1888 kunne besogende pa Den nordiske Industri-, Landbrugs- og Kunstudstilling opleve det bedste og nyeste, det unge industrisamfund kunne prAestere. UtrAettelige dampmaskiner, dynamoer og gasmotorer fik hjulene til at snurre, og cykler, koldt smor og konservesdaser imponerede. De fleste var begejstrede, mens andre sa det nye som vejen til moralsk forfald. For hvad skulle unge mAend bruge de lange vinteraftener pa, nar de kunne kobe en stol i stedet for selv...
Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders. However, as the war progressed, it increasingly came to consist of several minor wars, one of them fought in Western Bosnia Herzegovina between Croatian and Muslim forces. This was the one that affected...
Just like national identities, European identity may be viewed as an imagined community, constituted by different levels of inclusion and exclusion along various border markers as those between included and excluded, between culturally dominating and dominated or between centre and periphery, natives and exiled. This book by researchers within the field of art and architecture, theatrical performance, literature and history, is an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the borders...
The modern political environment is not the first time America’s paranoia infected the world. In the 1950s the western world went to war against an enemy they saw was destroying their children, Comic Books. This is a tale based on the true stories of those affected by these strange times.
I middelalderen var ovrighedsmagten i Danmark delt mellem konge og kirke. Kongen sikrede freden, kirken gav ham den nodvendige legitimation og var selv aktiv i landets ledelse. Men konge og kirke var kun de to storste i et spektrum at magthavere, og magt var lokaliseret mange steder i samfundet. Det gAelder isAer i senmiddelalderen, hvor adelen styrkede sin position i forhold til konge og kirke, samtidig med at nye politiske og okonomiske muligheder abnede sig for samfundsgrupper som borgeren og...
Kunstens fortAellinger kan supplere med nye vinkler pa nutidens psykosociale problemer med appetit, som hidtil har vAeret domineret af biologiske forklaringer.Ifolge bogen Tantaluskvaler beskriver den knap sa kendte klassiske myte om Tantalus samtidens problemer med appetitten bedre end psykoanalysens kanoniserede myter om Odipus og Narcissus. Sagnfiguren Tantalus fik en hard straf, da han fornAermede guderne: Han matte til evig tid sulte og torste, mens han var fanget i en overflod af mad og...
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 liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific events left the country ruined and deeply divided. Usable History? examines the way in which the history of Yugoslavia's internal problematic past was presented and used politically and...