Nordic paths to modernity
By: edited by Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780857452696; 9780857452702
Subjects: Scandinavia; Civilization; Social policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock; title: Nordic modernity : origins, trajectories, perspectives / Bo Stråth; title: The Danish path to modernity / Uffe Østergaard; title: Denmark 1740-1940 : a centralised cultural community / Niels Kayser Nielsen; title: The making of Sweden / Björn Wittrock; title: History, ethics and the path to modernity in pre-revolutionary Sweden / Peter Hallberg; title: Shifting knowledge regimes : the metamorphoses of Norwegian reformism / Rune Slagstad; title: Alternative processes of modernization? / Gunnar Skirbekk; title: Nordic modernity and Finnish modernity : similarities and differences / Risto Alapuro; title: The Finnish Grand Duchy and the paradoxes of the Finnish political culture / Henrik Stenius; title: Icelandic anomalies / Jóhann Páll Árnason; title: 'The time will come' : Icelandic modernity and the role of nationalism / Guðmundur Hálfdanarson.