Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

Author: Mary K. Mannix

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 0838912966

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Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

Sweden after Nazism
Sweden after Nazism

Author: Johan Östling

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1805392697

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As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism. Accordingly, Swedes’ self-conception underwent a dramatic reformulation. From this interplay of suppressed traditions and bright dreams for the future, postwar Sweden emerged.

Names of Persons
Names of Persons

Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2013-06-21

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 311097455X

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International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship

Author: L. -P. Dana

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 1781952647

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This book offers an original collection of international studies on indigenous entrepreneurship. Through these specific lenses, entrepreneurship greatly appears as a set of cultural values-based behaviours. Once more culture and human values are placed at the heart of entrepreneurship as an economic and social phenomenon.'. - Alain Fayolle, EM Lyon and CERAG Laboratory, France and Solvay Business School, Belgium. `A must-have for researchers of developmental economics, as well as for entrepreneurship scholars, this collection assembles studies of indigenous entrepreneurship from five continent.

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Author: John D. McDonald

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 5538

ISBN-13: 1000031543

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The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.

The Creation of an Ethnic Identity
The Creation of an Ethnic Identity

Author: Blanck, Dag

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780809389513

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"In his book, Dag Blanck analyzes how Swedish American identity was constructed, maintained, and changed in the Augustana Synod from 1860 to 1917. The author poses three fundamental questions: How did an ethnic identity develop in the Augustana synod? Of what did that ethnic identity consist? Why did that ethnic identity come into being?" "[summary]"--Provided by publisher