Explores the "Nordic model" of the welfare state through a long-term historical-sociological perspective Traces the transformative movements from a military state to a democratic one Details the significant features which set the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland) apart from one another
Explores the "Nordic model" of the welfare state through a long-term historical-sociological perspective Traces the transformative movements from a military state to a democratic one Details the significant features which set the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland) apart from one another
Björn Wittrock is Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, and University Professor at Uppsala University. He has published extensively, currently eighteen books, in the fields of intellectual history, historical social science, social theory and civilizational analysis. Recent publications include: Frontiers of Sociology (co-editor, Brill 2009) and Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (co-editor, Brill 2004).
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Acknowledgements Introduction Jóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn Wittrock Chapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, Perspective Bo Stråth Chapter 2. The Danish Path to Modernity Uffe Østergård Chapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural Community Niels Kayser Nielsen Chapter 4. The Making of Sweden Björn Wittrock Chapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary Sweden Peter Hallberg Chapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism Rune Slagstad Chapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization? Gunnar Skirbekk Chapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and Differences Risto Alapuro Chapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture Henrik Stenius Chapter 10. Icelandic Anomalies Jóhann Páll Árnason Chapter 11. 'The Time Will Come': Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism Guðmundur Hálfdanarson Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements Introduction Jóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn Wittrock Chapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, Perspective Bo Stråth Chapter 2. The Danish Path to Modernity Uffe Østergård Chapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural Community Niels Kayser Nielsen Chapter 4. The Making of Sweden Björn Wittrock Chapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary Sweden Peter Hallberg Chapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism Rune Slagstad Chapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization? Gunnar Skirbekk Chapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and Differences Risto Alapuro Chapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture Henrik Stenius Chapter 10. Icelandic Anomalies Jóhann Páll Árnason Chapter 11. 'The Time Will Come': Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism Guðmundur Hálfdanarson Notes on Contributors
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