Historical Dictionary of Sweden

Elisabeth Elgán is an associate professor of history at the Department of History at Stockholm University in Sweden. Her main field of research is Contemporary Political History and she is specialized in gender topics as well as in French History.Irene Scobbie is one of Great Britain's leading specialists on Scandinavia. She is the author of the two first editions of the Historical Dictionary of Sweden.

• Editor’s Foreword Jon WoronoffAcknowledgmentsReader’s NoteAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendix A: Swedish RulersAppendix B: Swedish Prime MinistersAppendix C: Sweden’s 25 Largest CompaniesBibliographyAbout the Author

It would be difficult to disagree with the remark of the authors on the first page of this dictionary that Sweden has had two claims to prominence in European history; first in her brief period of military glory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and second as the prototypical welfare state in the twentieth. Both these periods are well-represented in the book’s 300 entries, between 20 and 2,000 words, which cover personalities (more than half the total number), places, parties and organizations, neighbouring countries and general subjects.