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Nordic paths to modernity
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the 'Nordic model' of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume's focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociological perspective is needed to make sense of the Nordic paths to modernity; of their significant but not complete convergence in patterns, which for some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be emulated in other settings; and of the specific features that still set the five countries in question (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The contributors explore transformative processes, above all the change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that will have significant implications on future developments.
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Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770–1919
Winner of the 2022 Nordic History Book Award Despite its failure as a political mobilizer, Scandinavism as a cultural movement would have a great impact on national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by stressing common ethnolinguistic, mythological and historical roots. This cultural vision is traced in 'the Long 19th Century', specifically in its interactions and overlaps with the various nationally specific manifestations of cultural nationalism. Through an in-depth analysis of an extensive corpus of cultural products - ranging from novels and poetry to public commemorations, painting and street name signs - this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism was successful in forging a common pan-Scandinavian identity that supplemented and strengthened national-identity formation in the three nationalities it aimed to unify. See inside the book.
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The Nordic theory of everything : in search of a better life
A Finnish journalist and naturalized American citizen compares and contrasts life in the U.S. with life in the Nordic region to encourage Americans to draw on practices from the Nordic way of life to create a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society.
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Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
In Scandinavia in the Age of
Vikings , Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the
Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of
Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks,
gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social
classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron
mining and metalworking, and trade.
Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary
sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and
surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of
Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted
out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing
with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great
feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous
consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the
brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad.
Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by
highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how
Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in
which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia
in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of
religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.)
Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and
war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia
affected the social fabric-shedding new light on Viking
society.
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The Nordic Beowulf
Cross-disciplinary study arguing that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowulf cannot be the independent literary product of an Old English Christian poet, but was in all essentials created orally in Scandinavia.
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Beyond the Northlands : Viking Voyages and the Old Norse sagas
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
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Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware.
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