Scandinavia Since 1500 / Byron J. Nordstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nordstrom, Byron J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavia--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Summary:

An updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden--Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands--are united by bonds of culture, language, and geography, and by a shared history that comes richly to life in this landmark work. Now in an expanded, updated edition, this authoritative chronicle of five centuries of Scandinavian history incorporates the geopolitical developments and momentous events that have marked the Nordic world in recent decades. Scandinavia since 1500 situates the region's political history within the traditional European chronology--in which the long "modern" period is subdivided into the Renaissance, early modern, modern, and contemporary. Within this framework, Byron J. Nordstrom traces the various ways in which economic, social, and cultural ideas and practices have come to Scandinavia from abroad, only to be modified and recast in a uniquely Nordic character. Long-unquestioned national mythologies come under Nordstrom's scrutiny, along with historical blind spots and erasures, as he ranges from canonical figures like Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Christian IV of Denmark to the constitutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the resistance movements in World War II, and the Scandinavian welfare states, literary culture, and modern design. Expanded to include the nature and realities of the increasingly postindustrial economies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries--including environmental concerns, integration with Europe, globalization, and immigration--Scandinavia since 1500 offers a comprehensive yet nuanced portrait of this unique region in all its political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural complexity. Cover alt text: Bold white title and author name across breathtaking snowy landscape of sun-touched cliffs beside a waterway and scattering of homes.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1. Scandinavia before the modern era

Part I. The early modern 1500-1800

Chapter 2. An age of transformations

Chapter 3. Absolutism and empire

Chapter 4. Early modern societies

Chapter 5. Politics and diplomacy in the age of the enlightenment

Chapter 6. Tradition and reform: societies in transition

Chapter 7. On the periphery: Finland, Norway, the Faeroe Islands, and Iceland

Part II. The long nineteenth century 1800-1914

Chapter 8. The era of the Napoleonic Wars

Chapter 9. Nationalism

Chapter 10. The road to political democracy

Chapter 11. New economies and new societies

Part III. The twentieth century and beyond

Chapter 12. World War I and the interwar years

Chapter 13. Norden and World War II

Chapter 14. The contemporary era: Norden since 1945

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Nordstrom, Byron J. Scandinavia Since 1500

ISBN:

9781452968933

1452968934

9781452968926

1452968926

OCLC:

1409792475