Nikolas Glover
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Economic History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 20
- E-mail:
- nikolas.glover@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Economic History; Uppsala Centre for Business History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 12 20
- E-mail:
- nikolas.glover@ekhist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75120 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
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- 0000-0002-6648-4154
Short presentation
My research has above all sought to shed fresh light, from various angles, on the cultural history of the 20th century Swedish export economy. I am particularly focused on interactions between state and organised business in export promotion, development aid and foreign policy. From this vantage point I engage with business history, marketing history, international history. I have also dabbled in the history of consumption.

Publications
Selection of publications
From NIEO-liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance
Part of Nordic Neoliberalisms, p. 37-54, Routledge, 2025
National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective
Routledge, 2023
Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism
Nordic Academic Press, 2023
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Recent publications
From NIEO-liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance
Part of Nordic Neoliberalisms, p. 37-54, Routledge, 2025
Blickfång: Skyltningslära som kommersiell sensorisk kunskap under 1900-talets första hälft
Part of Sinnen i arbete, p. 151-174, Arkiv förlag & tidskrift, 2025
Conceptualising ‘Made in’ as a historical phenomenon
Part of National Brands and Global Markets, Routledge, 2023
The long life of ‘Swedish quality’: Promoting exports and keeping Swedes competitive, c. 1900-1990s
Part of National Brands and Global Markets, Routledge, 2023
National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective
Routledge, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Culture Unbound, p. 41-65, 2021
- DOI for Marketing Internationalism in an Era of Globalisation: The Swedish-South African Partnership Week, November 1999
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På hemmafronten intet nytt: Kommersiell kvinnlighet under svensk beredskap, 1939-1945
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 476-509, 2021
Part of Contemporary European History, p. 284-300, 2021
- DOI for A ‘Swedish Offensive’ at the World's Fairs: Advertising, Social Reformism and the Roots of Swedish Cultural Diplomacy, 1935–1939
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Part of Nordic Journal of Educational History, p. 25-47, 2019
- DOI for The 'aidification' of national experiences: Swedish-supported correspondence education in Tanzania, ca 1960-1975
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Part of Enterprise & society, p. 401-444, 2019
Between human capital and human worth: Popular valuations of knowledge in 20th-century Sweden
Part of Scandinavian Journal of History, p. 484-509, 2019
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Framtidsmarknader: Svensk ekonomisk diplomati i Afrika och Asien under avkoloniseringens era
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 649-677, 2018
Articles, review/survey
From kinship to global brand. By Anna Kharkina
Part of Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidskrift, p. 366-370, 2013
Chapters in book
From NIEO-liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance
Part of Nordic Neoliberalisms, p. 37-54, Routledge, 2025
Blickfång: Skyltningslära som kommersiell sensorisk kunskap under 1900-talets första hälft
Part of Sinnen i arbete, p. 151-174, Arkiv förlag & tidskrift, 2025
Conceptualising ‘Made in’ as a historical phenomenon
Part of National Brands and Global Markets, Routledge, 2023
The long life of ‘Swedish quality’: Promoting exports and keeping Swedes competitive, c. 1900-1990s
Part of National Brands and Global Markets, Routledge, 2023
Bortom vänstervind och högervåg
Part of Marknadens tid, p. 11-32, Nordic Academic Press, 2023
Världsmarknadernas tid: De multinationella företagen och den nya internationalismen
Part of Marknadens tid, p. 291-314, Nordic Academic Press, 2023
Part of Efterkrigstidens samhällskontakter, p. 281-316, Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2019
Neutrality Unbound: Sweden, foreign aid, and the rise of the non-aligned Third World
Part of Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War, Routledge, 2016
Representing the Small States of Northern Europe: Between Imagined and Imaged Communities
Part of Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: , p. 3-20, Brill Academic Publishers, 2015
Kritiker, krämare och kramare: Kommentarer till texter om den svenska synden
Part of Sexualpolitiska nyckeltexter, p. 395-403, Leopard förlag, 2015
Part of Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, p. 123-144, Brill Academic Publishers, 2015
Unity Exposed: The Scandinavia Pavilions at the World Exhibitions in 1967 and 1970
Part of Nordic Experience, p. 219-239, Ashgate, 2013
Collections (editor)
National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective
Routledge, 2023
Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism
Nordic Academic Press, 2023
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Brill Academic Publishers, 2015