Making Nordic historiography : connections, tensions and methodology (1850-1970) / edited by Pertti Haapala, Marja Jalava and Simon Larrson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haapala, Pertti, editor.

Jalava, Marja, editor.

Larrson, Simon, editor.

Series:

Making sense of history ; Volume 32.

Making Sense of History ; Volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavia--Historiography.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Berghahn, 2017.

Summary:

Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this informative volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Whether recounting Foucault’s departure from Sweden or tracing the rise of movements such as “aristocratic empiricism,” each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach that is grounded in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Nordic historiography: from methodological nationalism to empirical transnationalism

Chapter 1. Writing our history: the history of the ‘Finnish people’ (as written) by Zacharias Topelius and Väinö Linna

Chapter 2. The impact of Grundtvig’s ideology on Icelandic historiography

Chapter 3. Cultural aspects of the pan-Scandinavian movement: the perspective of historians

Chapter 4. National, international or transnational? Works and networks of the early Nordic historians of society

Chapter 5. Scientific historiography and its discontents: Danish and Swedish ‘aristocratic empiricism’

Chapter 6. Nationalist internationalism: Danish and Norwegian historical research in the aftermath of the First World War

Chapter 7. Nordic networks at work: power struggles in the Scandinavian historical field, 1935–1942

Chapter 8. The rhythm and implicit canon of Nordic history by Eli F. Heckscher and Eino Jutikkala

Chapter 9. Negotiating Norden: Nordic historians revising history textbooks, 1920–1970

Chapter 10. Loneliness: being a woman in the Nordic community of historians

Chapter 11. Trans-Nordic neo-empiricism in a European setting – or, why did Foucault leave Uppsala?

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-670-7

OCLC:

998752893