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1 Backpocket pictures
2 Sources about Sweden in English
3 Pictures in use

[edit] Backpocket pictures

To be used in special history section or main Nevis page? Also have 1860-1920 pics waiting to be uploaded. Copyright expired on pics belonging to The Crowne?

[edit] Sources about Sweden in English

[edit] History Sources

Moberg, Vilhelm. A History of the Swedish People : Volume I: From Prehistory to the Renaissance. Transl. Paul Britten Austin. University of Minnesota Press (February 7, 2005). ISBN: 0816646562.
Moberg, Vilhelm. A History of the Swedish People : Volume II: From Renaissance to Revolution. Transl. Paul Britten Austin. University of Minnesota Press (February 7, 2005). ISBN: 0816646570.
Scott, Franklin Daniel. Sweden: The Nation's History. Southern Illinois University Press (February 1989) . ISBN: 0809314894.
Nordstrom, Byron J. The History of Sweden. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. Greenwood Press; 1st edition (August 30, 2002). ISBN: 0313312583

[edit] Art and Culture

Widenheim, Cecilia. Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960. Yale University Press (April 1, 2002). ISBN: 0300093594.

[edit] Government and policy

Constitutional documents of Sweden. The Constitution, the Instrument of Government, the Act of Succession, the Freedom of the Press Act, the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression and the Riksdag Act. Swedish Riksdag (2006).
Heclo, Hugh and Henrik Masden. Policy and Politics in Sweden: Principled Pragmatism. Policy and Politics in Industrial States. Temple University Press (February 1987) ISBN: 0877222665

[edit] Economy and welfare system

Magnusson, Lars. An Economic History of Sweden. Routledge; 1 edition (June 2000). ISBN: 0415181674.
Cerra, Valerie (Ed.) Sweden's Welfare State: Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying? International Monetary Fund (December 2003). ISBN: 1589061586.

Book Description at Amazon.com: "Sweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish system is marked by excessive government intervention and attendant inefficiencies. These contrasting views are captured in imagery used by Prime Minister Goran Persson: "think of a bumblebee. With its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly- but its does." The Swedish welfare state is the bumblebee that has managed to fly. This book draws on many years of IMF surveillance and policy advice to understand how it has done so, to access the challenges that the "Swedish model" faces in the new century, and to draw lessons for the many other countries that face similar challenges from globalization and demographics."

Bengtsson T, and M. Dribe (2000). "New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden during the 18th and 19th Centuries: Long-term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-term Economic Stress among Landless in Western Scania." Research Report 16. Odense, Denmark: Danish Center for Demographic Research, 2000.

Abstract: Industrialization itself, like all forms of economic growth, exerts intrinsically negative population health effects among those communities most directly involved in the transformations which it entails. Sweden has sometimes been considered an exception, but the most recent research has shown that the landless Scanian rural populace suffered significant health consequences during the second quarter of the 19th century when their agricultural economy was first exposed to commercial pressures necessitating raised productivity, whereas later in the century it was the crucial role played by advanced government public health measures in the 1870s in anticipating the health problems of industrial urbanization, which minimized such negative effects when Sweden experienced its own industrialization.

[edit] National identity

Hall, Patrik. "The Social Construction of Nationalism. Sweden as an Example." (Lund, 1998). Doctoral Dissertation, 91-7966-525-X.
Gustafsson, Harald. "The Eighth Argument. Identity, Ethnicity and Political Culture in Sixteenth-Century Scandinavia." Scand. J. History 27, pp. 91–114.
Jakobsson, Sverrir. "Defining a Nation: Popular and Public Identity in the Middle Ages." Scand. J. History 24, pp. 91-101.
Stadin, Kekke. "The Masculine Image of a Great Power: Representations of Swedish imperial power c.1630–1690." Scand. J. History 30, pp. 61–82.
Germundsson,Tomas. "Regional Cultural Heritage versus National Heritage in Scania’s Disputed National Landscape." International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 21–37. (ISSN 1470–3610).

[edit] General book list from SI

Sweden.se. ENTER Category: "Fact book" and Language: "English". This is a search site for the Swedish Institute (SI), a public agency entrusted with disseminating knowledge abroad about Sweden and organizing exchanges with other countries in the spheres of culture, education, research and public life in general. The bookstore, Sweden Bookshop, specializes in books supplying a broad selection of information about Sweden and Swedish literature in languages other than Swedish. Gives a nice selection for "Further reading" on Wiki and has some sources worth checking out.

N.B. The selection is biased in that all the books are selected for the positive light they put Sweden in, but useful for things like Swedish architecture, design, art, folk lore etc.