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• Volume I. Livres I à XI
• Volume II. Livres XII à XXII
• Volume III. Postface, bibliographie, index, table des matières et "Carta Marina"

"Contraint par la Réforme luthérienne à quitter la Suède, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), dernier archevêque catholique d{u2019}Upsal, vécut en exil plus de trente ans, et mourut à Rome. Sa grande Carta Marina ou Carte ± gothique ? (Venise 1539) apparaît dans l{u2019}histoire de la cartographie du Nord comme un monument d{u2019}une beauté inégalée. L{u2019}Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Rome 1555), dont voici la première traduction française intégrale, peint les sociétés nordiques au plus près de la vie courante, aux prises avec un bestiaire largement ignoré du reste de l{u2019}Europe, et parfois monstrueux. Comme dans un kaléidoscope, fragments descriptifs et gravures sur bois se répondent. Chez les Scandinaves (Goths et Suédois, Norvégiens, Danois) se distinguent encore les vestiges d{u2019}un lointain et fabuleux passé germanique, dont les Islandais cultivent le souvenir. Au-delà, 'sous le pôle', face aux éléments déchaînés, Finnois, Lapons, Groenlandais, Moscovites se révèlent merveilleusement industrieux, ainsi qu{u2019}en témoignent dans ce livre la première représentation des 'bois recourbés' {u2013} ancêtres de nos skis {u2013} sur lesquels ils se déplacent 'aussi vite que l{u2019}éclair'."-- Page 4 of cover

• Map of Sápmi and Scandinavia
• Sápmi's geography and languages
• Introduction
• Lapponia
• Curiosity cabinets
• The Magic drum
• Mr. Bullock's exhibition of Laplanders
• A model prisoner
• Autumn migration in Lule Lapmark
• Razzias
• The Lappish department
• Making histories
• Roots and spirals
• Wax cylinders, Sámi voices
• Opening the blue chest
• Recentering: Sweden
• Returning: Norway
• Recollecting: Sápmi
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Index

"The story of the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. Deftly written and amply illustrated, From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency"-- Provided by publisher

• Kingship, Administration and Warfare in Western Europe, c.1000-1300
• Denmark : From Scandinavian Domination to Dissolution
• Norway : From Danish Overlordship to Atlantic Empire
• Sweden : Between East and West
• Polity Consolidation and Military Transformation in Scandinavia

"In this book, Beñat Elortza Larrea analyses the processes of polity consolidation and military transformation in Scandinavia between the early eleventh and early fourteenth centuries. Based on a plethora of administrative, legal, and narrative sources, this study examines the development of governance and warfare in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and evaluates to which degree European ideas and institutions shaped the budding medieval Scandinavian realms. In other words--did the formation of these kingdoms stem mostly from European influence, were they a by-product of a purely Scandinavian ethos, or did they largely develop due to historical and geographical circumstances unique to each realm"-- Provided by publisher

• Historical background
• Norway
• Sweden
• Denmark
• Conclusion : observations and reflections

"This book scrutinizes how three small Scandinavian countries - Norway, Sweden and Denmark - developed a unique foreign policy that brought Israel and the Palestinians to the negotiating table. Bringing together the field of soft power diplomacy with the field of conflict mediation, the text analyses the specific type of peace diplomacy offered by Scandinavia. It identifies the different methods and policies of the three Scandinavian countries, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their mediation strategies. Close examination of the historical record through primary and secondary sources in five languages reveals how Scandinavian involvement worked over almost three decades and to what extent it shaped the content of the Oslo peace talks. The author documents how the Scandinavian countries employed soft power diplomacy to enlist the aid of more powerful countries and international institutions to compensate for their limited authority and legitimacy, and how they used the Middle East peace process to strengthen their own national interests, financial standing and international status. The book will appeal to scholars, diplomats, politicians, educators and students interested in Scandinavian foreign policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"-- Provided by publisher.

• In the King's Treasury
• Placed in Chests : The Making of Cultural Spoils in Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond
• Archive Trouble : The Mitau Files in Vasa History
• Library Confessions : Catholic Books, Jesuit Epistemology and Temporality at Uppsala University Library
• War Museums : Spolia Selecta in Carl Gustaf Wrangel's Skokloster
• Spoils of Knowledge, Triumph and Trouble.

"In Spoils of Knowledge, Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611-1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries. Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowledge was appreciated, used and fused with its new Swedish settings. Moreover, spanning a history of 400 years, she shows that the understanding of spoils changed significantly over time"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Pax Suecia 1814-2020 Nevra Biltekin, Leos Muller & Magnus Petersson
• Chapter 1. 'Long Peace', Neutrality and Sweden-Norway's Foreign Policy, 1794-1856 Leos Muller
• Chapter 2. How Small States Manage to Stay Out of Wars: Explaining Sweden's 200 Years of Peace Jacob Westberg
• Chapter 3. Swedish Peace Movements and the Breakup of the Forced Union Between Sweden and Norway in 1905 Fredrik Egefur
• Chapter 4. The Swedish Lotta Movement and its Neighbours: Navigating Neutrality, Peace Building and Women's Issues in the Twentieth Century Anne Heden
• Chapter 5. The Quest for Neutrality: Sweden, Finland and the Language Question in a Cold War Context Janne Vaistoe
• Chapter 6. No Peace Without Equality: The 'North-South Conflict' and its Effects on Sweden, the Netherlands and West Germany Christopher Seiberlich
• Conclusion Nevra Biltekin, Leos Muller & Magnus Petersson.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Since 1814 Sweden has avoided involvement in armed conflicts and carried out policies of non-alignment in peacetime and neutrality during war. Even though the Swedish government often describes Sweden as a 'nation of peace', in 2004 the 200-year anniversary of that peace passed by with barely any attention. Despite its extraordinary longevity, research about the Swedish experience of enduring peace is underdeveloped. 200 Years of Peace places this long period of peace in broader academic and public discussions surrounding claimed Swedish exceptionality as it is represented in the nation's social policies, expansive welfare state, eugenics, gender equality programs, and peace.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)