ISBN10: 9186523082, ISBN13: 9789186523084, [publisher: NORDICOM-Sverige, 107] Softcover Text in English. 369 pp. Moderate wear on the spine. The twenticth publication in the series Sylwan, can be considered to be the final building block in that intellectual edifice. It describes the history of the Swedish press that carlier was presented in four volumes plus an index (2000-2003), as well as in all the nineteen previous publication in the Sylwan series. Per Rydén and Karl Erik Gustafsson, who led the project, previously with the assistance of ten scholarly colleagues, Lars-Åke Engblom, Claes-Göran Holmberg, Eric Johannesson, Sverker Jonsson, Gunilla Lundström, Dag Nordmark, Ingemar Oscarsson, Birgit Petersson, Elisabeth Sandlund and Jarl Torbacke, have here taken on the responsibility of producing a summary version based on the earlier work. The development of the sector, as well as new research results, during the intervening years has been included. 'The perspective has been somewhat altered in that the Swedish press, to a larger degree than before, has been placed in an international context. The Swedish press, during the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and early 21th centuries continually reflected what was happening in the outside world and in its choice of format was influenced by developments in England, France, Germany, the US and the other Nordic countries. At the same time, it is apparent that the Swedish press, with its early freedom of the press legislatio ...
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