Portraits of the Past: Bohuslän Society in the Twentieth Century
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789185838073 (9185838071)
Pages no: 222
bookshelves: autobiography-memoir, environmental-issues, families, history, lifestyles-deathstyles, nonfiction, period-piece, published-1994, re-read, sweden, seven-seas Read in January, 2001 From the introduction - The historical canvas upon which these portraits of life in Bohuslän are painte...
From the introduction - The historical canvas upon which these portraits of life in Bohuslän are painted is the rise of a maritime society. Beginning in the 1760s, there began to develop in Bohuslän an early form of industrial society based upon the trade in salted herring, which involved numerous s...