A history of Finland
Subtitle: directions, structures, turning-points
By: Henrik Meinander ; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780231701921
Subjects: Finland; History
Work titles: Finlands historia
Notes: Originally published as: Finlands historia. Finland : Söderström, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of time. 	The country's first inhabitants -- Vikings and crusades -- The emergence of the Swedish realm -- Agriculture and trade -- The birth of the principality. The Kalmar union -- Reformation politics -- Administration and economy -- Wars and family feuds -- Great power of the north. Impetus for expansion -- In the time of the count -- Green gold -- A homogeneous Lutheran culture -- Absolutism and catastrophe -- Stockholm-St Petersburg . City on the Neva and fortress of Sveaborg -- Economic and social transformation -- The age of utility -- The Gustavian era -- The Finnish war -- Pax Russica. Union with Russia -- The imperial stamp -- The long farewell -- National awakening -- The Crimean war -- Growing autonomy. Parliament revitalized -- National and global politics -- The dawn of industrialization -- Civic society -- Cultural expression -- Opposition and rupture -- War and independence.  The Civil War -- Towards parliamentary democracy -- Growth and technology -- National, modern, popular -- Lessons of the winter war -- Ambivalent allies -- Welfare and neutrality. In the shadow of the Cold War -- Socio-economic changes -- Social and urban developments -- Cultural revolution -- Active foreign policy -- Shifts of power -- Finland and Europe. Rapid realignment to the west -- Crisis and renewal -- National deconstruction? -- European perspectives.