Table of Contents

ContentsForeword Engelbrekt - a Great Man who was Small of Stature Our Daily Bark-Bread Thrice King How Swedes Learned to hate Danes The Forests and Popular Liberties The Three Stures A Warrior People's Dream of Peace Tyrant I: Christian II Tyrant II: Gustav I Life in the Villages The Women outside History The Dacke Rising - Our Greatest Popular Revolt

About the Author

Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1972) was one of Sweden's greatest writers of the twentieth century and is well known for his remarkable The Emigrants (1949), a four-volume epic tale of Swedish immigration to America. Paul Britten Austin is a translator and historian.Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was an acclaimed Swedish economist and politician. He won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1974.