Nordic paths to modernity / edited by Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock.

Other author Árnason, Jóhann Páll, 1940-
Other author Wittrock, Björn.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books,
Descriptionvi, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction / Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock -- Nordic modernity : origins, trajectories, perspectives / Bo Stråth -- The Danish path to modernity / Uffe Østergaard -- Denmark 1740-1940 : a centralised cultural community / Niels Kayser Nielsen -- The making of Sweden / Björn Wittrock -- History, ethics and the path to modernity in pre-revolutionary Sweden / Peter Hallberg -- Shifting knowledge regimes : the metamorphoses of Norwegian reformism / Rune Slagstad -- Alternative processes of modernization? / Gunnar Skirbekk -- Nordic modernity and Finnish modernity : similarities and differences / Risto Alapuro -- The Finnish Grand Duchy and the paradoxes of the Finnish political culture / Henrik Stenius -- Icelandic anomalies / Jóhann Páll Árnason -- 'The time will come' : Icelandic modernity and the role of nationalism / Guðmundur Hálfdanarson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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