Nordic Academic Press
Nordic Academic Press was founded in 1997 and became an independent publishing house in January 2018. The press publishes around twenty new titles a year, and do their utmost to ensure their books live up to top standard — the best scholarship, clearly expressed, in an elegant layout and transparent expression. The NAP backlist has a strong focus on the humanities – history, anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, classical studies, literature and linguistics – with additional works in related disciplines such as political studies, sociology, and art and gender studies. They publish works in Swedish and English by Swedish and sometimes Nordic scholars for a Nordic and inter­national circle of readers.
Expanding media histories Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9789189361676
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2023
Illustrations: 40
Description:
Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media.
Vasa II - Rigging and Sailing a Swedish Warship of 1628 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 472
ISBN: 9789188909114
Pub Date: 20 Nov 2023
Illustrations: 450
Description:
When Vasa was raised in 1961 a lost world was revealed in astonishing detail. Among the most remarkable finds were the remains of the rigging. Normally shipwrecks offer only a few clues to the structure above the waterline, but on Vasa the lower masts, a myriad of blocks and deadeyes, hundreds of metres of rope and cable and – most astonishingly – nine sails from the ship and its boat survive.
Afterlives Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789189361126
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2023
Illustrations: 135
Description:
In Afterlives, the literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian orgin have been reinterpreted as comics. She sets out how literary works, plays, and films have crossed and recrossed the boundaries of language and media, speaking to new times and new contexts. Comic art adaptations have long been neglected by academics, so in this book the author considers them as unique visual media with their own aesthetic, technical, and narrative qualities.
Knowledge Actors Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789189361652
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2023
Illustrations: 20
Description:
Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, and educational reformers. Yet the theoretical currents that have left their mark on the historical and sociological studies of knowledge since the 1960s have emphasized structures over actors, collectives over individuals.
Swedish Art Historiography Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9789189361171
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2023
Illustrations: 53 illustrations
Description:
Constant change and expansion have been the hallmarks of Swedish art history as an academic discipline since the first university chairs were established a hundred years ago. It has crossfertilized with related disciplines and benefited from the parallel emergence of art museums and other institutions in Sweden. Swedish art history should thus be seen as the result of people and institutions tapping into one another’s activities, united by their dedication to art and visual culture as an object of study and experience.
Gender, Materiality, and Politics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789189361379
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 10 illustrations
Description:
Can a silk glove be an expression of power? In this carefully curated volume, internationally renowned historians have come together to explore the interconnected perspectives of gender, materiality, and politics. As the authors elaborate on these topics, the volume offers contributions covering a period from the sixteenth century to the present day, investigating political culture and diplomacy, women’s work and assets, sexuality and queer perspectives, and the role of materiality and objects.
Facing the Sea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9789189361034
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2021
Description:
The sea has many faces. Some are calm and welcoming, others ferocious and death-dealing. For centuries of human history, the sea has seen peaceful trade and war, life and death and failure.
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789188909619
Pub Date: 15 May 2021
Description:
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has recently started to have an impact on current research.
Movement of Knowledge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9789188909343
Pub Date: 29 Jul 2020
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servants desk and then on to a policymaker. These movements matter: value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical research, and policy decisions are taken in relation to existing knowledge.
Forbidden Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9789188661876
Pub Date: 17 Jun 2020
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today, just as in the past, advances in media technology are followed by new regulatory mechanisms.
Fashioned in the North Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789188661937
Pub Date: 23 Mar 2020
Description:
Fashioned in the north showcases stories of images, photographers, publications and institutions that have attracted minimal attention outside the local Nordic academic community. The authors of the book examine the reasons for, and implications of this under-exposure to use a photographic metaphor. The domain of fashion photography studies is widened here and the texts challenge often taken-for-granted ideas of centre and periphery in the discipline.
Forms of Knowledge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9789188909381
Pub Date: 07 Feb 2020
Description:
The history of knowledge is a dynamic field of research with bright prospects. In recent years it has been established as an exciting, forward-looking field internationally, with a strong presence in the Nordic countries. Forms of Knowledge is the first publication by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).
Making the invisible visible Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9789188661852
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2019
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
To describe women in film history as "invisible" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver screen have given audiences their version of what it is to be a woman. And as film stars they have always been associated with the glamour of the film industry - the living embodiment of female attraction and pleasure. In Making the invisible visible, however, a group of researchers dissect the underrepresentation of women in areas of film culture often overlooked.
Europe at the Crossroads Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9789188909183
Pub Date: 20 May 2019
Description:
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes. Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world.
Mercenary Swedes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9789188661821
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2019
Description:
In the 1630s, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against the Holy Roman Emperor in the vicious, prolonged war between Protestant and Catholic states. Both countries goal was to limit the Empire s expansion, and the Swedes needed funds. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies of about 400,000 Swedish riksdaler every year for five years a vast sum.
Didactic Classroom Studies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9789188661456
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2018
Description:
In Didactic Classroom Studies a group of researchers from the University of Gothenburg who are working in the Scandinavian didactics' tradition show how pupil perspectives, teacher priorities, content and context interrelate, and have different didactical consequences for teaching and learning. Using practical examples the authors examine the nature of classroom work at various levels of education and in the full range of subject areas, including mathematics, science, languages, social science, and home economics. The editors then single out the importance of classroom studies as a potential research direction in didactic studies.