Mart Kuldkepp

The Shortest History of Scandinavia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Shortest Histories
• Verlag: Old Street Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781913083977
• ISBN-10: 1913083977
• Artikelnr.: 73333313

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. What Is Scandinavia?
2. Prehistorical Scandinavia
3. The Viking Age
4. The Rise of Statehood
5. The High Middle Ages: Centralization and Europeanization
6. The Late Medieval Crisis and the Kalmar Union
7. Wars and Politics: 1500s-1600s
8. The Early Modern Period: Absolutism and Parliamentarianism
9. Economy, Trade and Colonialism in the 1700s
10. The Napoleonic Wars and the Swedish-Norwegian Union
11. Romantic Nationalism, Liberalism and Scandinavianism
12. Economic and Social Modernization: Late 1800s - Early 1900s
13. Modern Parliamentarism and the End of the Swedish-Norwegian Union
14. World War I: Neutrality and Political Renewal
15. The Interwar Period: Crisis and Recovery
16. World War II: Resistance and Acquiescence
17. The Cold War and the Nordic Balance
18. The Classic Era of the Welfare State
19. European Integration and Post-Cold War Transition
20. Political Developments in the 1990s and 2000s
21. Nordic Cultural Exports and "Scandimania"
22. Scandinavian Successes and Failures
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography
Image Credits
Index