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Author Griffiths, Tony, 1940-

Title Stockholm : a cultural and literary history / Tony Griffiths
Published Oxford : Signal Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cities of the imagination
Cities of the imagination.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Touring the terrain -- Ch. 1 beautiful hungry landscape : approaching Stockholm -- Ch. 2 Murky ends : a history of assassination -- Ch. 3 Fearful lingo : mutual misunderstandings -- Ch. 4 Money, money, money : industrialists and philanthropists -- Ch. 5 Stars and sly bitches : Stockholm and cinema -- Ch. 6 man after midnight : sex, gender and equality -- Ch. 7 system : conformity, control and the demon drink -- Ch. 8 Fairytale kings and dancing queens : the monarchy -- Ch. 9 City of blood : Stockholm's tragic past -- Ch. 10 Nobel prizes : doing it for me -- Ch. 11 Northern necropolis : death and dying -- Ch. 12 Lust : how Stockholmers enjoy themselves
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
Civilization
Literature
SUBJECT Stockholm (Sweden) -- History
Stockholm (Sweden) -- Civilization
Stockholm (Sweden) -- In literature
Subject Sweden -- Stockholm
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781904955856
1904955851