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Basics

On the Web: Articles

Why Swedish Left Keeps Winning. Nathan Newman, Progressive Populist (10/15/02).

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Everything Swedish.

Swedish Politics.

In the Library: Articles

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Berg,Karin Westman & Gabriella Ahmanson. Mothers, Saviours, Peacemakers: Swedish Women Writers in the 20th C.: Essays (Uppsala: Uppsala U., 1983).

Blückert, Kjell. The Church as Nation: A Study in Ecclesiology & Nationhood (NY: P. Lang, 2000).

Brown, Michael Barratt (ed.) Power & Ownership: Swedish Left Party (trans. Gunnar Sandin; Nottingham, Spokesman, 2003).

Childs, Marquis. Sweden: The Middle Way [1936] (rev. ed. New Haven: Yale, 1961).

__________. This is Democracy: Collective Bargaining in Scandinavia (New Haven: Yale, 1938).

__________. Sweden: The Middle Way on Trial (New Haven: Yale, 1980).

Enzell,Magnus. Requiem for a Constitution: Constitutionalism & Political Culture in Early 20th C. Sweden (Stockholm, 2002).

Moberg, Vilhelm. A History of the Swedish People (trans. Paul Britten Austin; Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2005-). Socialist classic.

Pred, Allan. The Past is Not Dead: Facts, Fictions, & Enduring Racial Stereotypes (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2004).

Rydström, Jens. Sinners & Citizens: Bestiality & Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950 (Chicago: U. of Chicgo, 2003).

Gustaffson, Gunnel. Towards a New Democratic Order? Women's Organizing in Sweden in the 90s (Stockholm: Publica, 1997).

Tunander, Olav. The Secret War Against Sweden: US & British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (NY: Frank Cass, 2004).

In the Library: Fiction

Ekman, Kerstin. Blackwater (trans. Joan Tate; NY: Doubleday, 1996). Communal living & rural life.

Enquist, Per Olov. The Legionnaires: A Documentary Novel (NY: Delacorte, 1973).

__________. The March of the Musicians: A Novel (London: Collins, 1985).

Fredericksson, Marianne. Simon & the Oaks (London: Orion, 1999). Sweden in World War II.

__________. Simon's Family (NY: Ballantine, 1999).

__________. Two Women (NY: Ballantine, 2001).

Gustaffson, Lars. A Tiler's Afternoon (trans. Tom Geddes; NY: New Publishing, 1993).

Jönsson, Reidar. My Life as a Dog (trans. Eivor Martinus; NY: Noonday, 1993).

Lagerkvist, Pär. The Dwarf [1945] (trans. Alexandra Dick; NY: Hill & Wang, 1973).

Lindgren, Torgny. The Way of a Serpent (London: Harvill, 1997).

Mankell, Henning. Faceless Killers: A Mystery (trans. Steven T. Murray; NY: New Press, 1997).

__________. The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (trans. Steven T. Murray; NY: New Press, 2000).

__________. Sidetracked (trans. Steven T. Murray; NY: Vintage, 2000).

__________. The Dogs of Riga (trans. Laurie Thompson; London: Vintage, 2002).

__________. One Step Behind (trans. Ebba Segerberg; NY: New Press, 2002).

__________. Firewall (trans. Ebba Segerberg; NY: New Press, 2002).

__________. The Return of the Dancing Master (trans. Laurie Thompson; NY: New Press, 2004).

__________. Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery (trans. Ebba Segerberg; NY: New Press, 2005).

Niemi, Mikael. Popular Music (London: Flamingo, 2003). Sweden in 1945.

Sjöwall, Maj & Per Wahlöö. Cop Killer: The Story of a Crime (trans. Joan Tate; NY: Pantheon, 1970).

__________. The Fire Engine that Disappeared (trans. Joan Tate; NY: Pantheon, 1970).

__________. The Locked Room: The Story of a Crime (trans. Paul Britten Austen; NY: Pantheon, 1973).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

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In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"Before the Storm" [2000], dir. Reza Parsa, 106m. Political thriller.

 



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