Mart Kuldkepp is a professor and researcher of Estonian and Nordic history at University College London, where he specializes in the political history of the Baltic and Nordic regions in the twentieth century. He has also translated numerous books, poetry and short stories, mainly from Icelandic and Old Icelandic into Estonian. He lives in London.
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
