Swedish Mentality / / Åke Daun.
Is there a distinctly Swedish national character? Are Swedes truly shy, unemotional, conflict-avoiding, melancholy, and dour? Swedish Mentality, the English translation of the hugely successful book published in Sweden in 1989, considers the reality behind the myth. The author, Åke Daun, is a respec...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Culture
- Personality
- Relation
- Feelings
- Rationality
- Melancholy
- Proverbs and Mentality
- The Swedishness Within
- The History of Swedishness
- Appendix: Two Fundamental Historical Preconditions
- References
- Index