Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize / Oscar J. Falnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falnes, Oscar J., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1938]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the local background in the midst of which the Norwegian Storting's Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute administer the Nobel Peace Prize.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part One. Two Northern Luminaries in the Peace Cause: Nobel and Bjørnson

I. Alfred Nobel: His Interest in Norway and in Peace

II. Bjørnson's Interest in Peace

Part Two. The Peace Movement in Norway

III. The Peace Movement and Other Liberal Causes

IV. Early Efforts to Organize

V. The Norwegian Peace Union: Earlier Period

VI. The Peace Union: A General Survey

Part Three. The Storting and the Peace Cause

VII. The Swedish-Norwegian Tension (1892-95) and Later Political Developments

VIII. The Storting Supports Various Peace Endeavors

IX. Peace and Unionist Politics

Part Four. The Storting's Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute

Χ. Implementing Nobel's Will

XI. Plans for a Nobel Institute

XII. The Institute in Its Advisory Capacity

XIII. Direct Support of the Peace Cause

XIV. Bjørnson and the Nobel Committee

XV. Personnel of the Committee

XVI. Candidates and Prize Winners

Part Five. Censure and Appraisal

XVII. Criticism, Specific and General

XVIII. The Background Reconsidered

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88733-7

OCLC:

1100435783