Home Partner Publishers Series Blog About Us Catalogues Contact Us
Architecture Art History Artists Decorative Arts & Crafts Exhibition Catalogues Film & Media Middle Eastern & Islamic Art Modern & Contemporary Art Music Performing Arts Photography Sculpture Visual Culture
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.

War Remains Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789188168818
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2018
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
What remains after war? In the World War era more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death. The horrifying experience of mass death lingered on in cultural narratives for years.
A Place to Know Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9789188661395
Pub Date: 23 May 2018
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
To engage with the aesthetic is to watch yourself watching and what you see cannot be reached, for all that exists is the reflection of the vision performed by you. The aesthetic experience offers insights into the consciousness that are both ancient and linked to creative inventions in present-day art culture. In "A Place to Know", Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf interprets twelve recent artworks, from Sol LeWitt to Katharina Grosse.
Circulation of Knowledge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789188661289
Pub Date: 02 Jan 2018
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Historians have long been interested in knowledge - its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was createdbut it has only been in recent years that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic scholars explore a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to this new and exciting area of historical research. The question of knowledge in motion is central to their investigations, and especially how knowledge is transformed when it circulates between different societal arenas, literary genres, or forms of media.
Siting Michelangelo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9789188661067
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2017
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: colour illus
Description:
Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici Chapel and Julius II's tomb should all be understood as dramatic interventions at their sites. Instead of adapting to and blending in with their surroundings, these are works that interact with the space, the ceremonies, and the music.
Museums in a time of Migration Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9789188168825
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2017
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Migration in all its forms is a prominent phenomenon, with far-ranging implications for society. Museums, being important educational institutions, not only reflect society, but what they display has the potential to affect our understanding of the world. When museums become places where people can explore the realities of migration, transnational connections, and human rights, they becomeeven more relevant as cultural institutions, and can help drive positive social change, encouraging solidarity and sustainable development.
Aging with Dignity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9789188168900
Pub Date: 05 May 2017
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for their elderly. Will countries be able to overcome these challenges?
Story of War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9789188168665
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
The endless wars of the seventeenth century took their toll in the lives of millions of soldiers and crushing taxes. To legitimise war, Europes rulers turned to the Church: O God, we praise you, Te Deum Laudamus, was sung in the churches of France and Sweden to celebrate victory in battle. It was a way of thanking God, but also an opportunity for congregations to learn what had happened -- and an occasion for festivities.
Public Diplomacy & Academic Mobility in Sweden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789188168511
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalisation of higher education and research have always been directly affected by foreign policy decisions and diplomatic considerations -- and still are.
Sensitive Objects Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789187675669
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package - things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice - on what affect does.
Clean House Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789188168351
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
According to virtually all international corruption rankings, Sweden is one of the top performing countries with very few exposed incidents of corruption. But does this automatically imply that it can be declared a perfectly healthy patient? By extensively reviewing existing research and adding empirical sets of data, the authors shed light on shady corners of the Swedish case.
Methods in World History Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789187675584
Pub Date: 19 Apr 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Methods in World History is the first international volume that systematically addresses a number of methodological problems specific to the field of world history. Prompted by a lack of applicable works, the authors advocate a considerable sharpening of the tools used within the field of study. Theories constructed on poor foundations run an obvious risk of reinforcing flawed assumptions, and of propping up other, more ideological, constructions.
Reconsidering Religion, Law & Democracy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9789188168238
Pub Date: 03 Feb 2016
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? Here, the authors study the interaction and negotiations between religious organizations and religious citizens on the one hand, and the state, the judicial system, the media, and secular citizens on the other. Religion has become more and more visible in contemporary society and is, more often than before, recognised as a public matter and not merely a private issue.
Urban Squares Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 142
ISBN: 9789187675492
Pub Date: 07 Dec 2015
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w ilus
Description:
Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these squares.
Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789187675737
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2015
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Scandinavian countries are generally associated with extensive public services and low levels of poverty. However, reality has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and Scandinavia's cities now share many of the problems and challenges familiar from other Western cities. How do the welfare states handle these global societal transformations?
Divided Cities Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789187675454
Pub Date: 11 Mar 2015
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Very rarely has peace and conflict studies been combined with public administration research. This book brings together theories from conflict resolution, public administration, and urban studies to present new theoretical and empirical insights from nine in-depth case studies. The authors employ the city as a prism to shed light on the complex, multidimensional processes of conflict, segregation, democratisation, and governance.
Welcome Home Mr Swanson Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9789187675119
Pub Date: 22 Jan 2015
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for the Swedes' national identity.
© Pen and Sword Books Limited 2024. Registered in England No. 2527258.
Registered Office: 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AS.