Nikolas Glover

Forskningen behöver arkiv men arkiven behöver också forskning. Utan forskningen vore arkivet som en förseglad grav, bortglömd och utan relevans i samtiden. Denna bok illustrerar ömsesidigheten i denna relation. Drygt hälften av volymen utgörs av Benito Peix Geldarts analys av forskning som baserats på arkiv hos Centrum för Näringslivshistoria. Den övriga delen består av personliga betraktelser från några av de många forskare som genom åren funnit nytta och inspiration i arkivet: Orsi Husz, Louice Bådholm, Oskar Broberg, Jan Ottosson, Rikard Westerberg, Fredrik Tydal, Mats Larsson, Nikolas Glover, Inger Olausson och Michael Funke. 50 år av forskning i Sveriges största näringslivsarkiv är den tolfte volymen i skriftserien Näringslivshistoria, som ges ut av Centrum för Näringslivshistoria.

In Stockholm in January 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organisation that was to improve the country's reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden's policy of neutrality during the war, encouraging peace-building, and promoting foreign trade in the new international world order. But how was all this to be achieved? In this book, historian Nikolas Glover analyses the policies, funding and national narratives of the Swedish Institute. He provides a historical perspective on the politics of promoting Swedish culture abroad, and on how ideas of communication shaped the Institute's work and its representations of Sweden. His wide-ranging analysis addresses the specific conditions of small-state public diplomacy: the influential domestic interests involved as well as the global context that dictated the ways in which claims to national uniqueness were framed.