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Alapuro, Risto
[Contributor];
Hallberg, Peter
[Contributor];
Hálfdanarson, Guðmundur
[Contributor];
Nielsen, Niels Kayser
[Contributor];
Skirbekk, Gunnar
[Contributor];
Slagstad, Rune
[Contributor];
Stenius, Henrik
[Contributor];
Stråth, Bo
[Contributor];
Wittrock, Björn
[Contributor];
Wittrock, Björn
[Editor];
Árnason, Jóhann Páll
[Contributor];
Árnason, Jóhann Páll
[Editor];
Østergård, Uffe
[Contributor]
Nordic Paths to Modernity
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: Nordic Paths to Modernity
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Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, Perspectives
2. The Danish Path to Modernity
3. Denmark 1740–1940: A Centralized Cultural Community
4. The Making of Sweden
5. History and Ethics in Pre-revolutionary Sweden
6. The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism
7. Alternative Processes of Modernization?
8. Nordic and Finnish Modernity: A Comparison
9. Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture
10. Icelandic Anomalies
11. Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism
Notes on Contributors
Index
- Contributor: Alapuro, Risto [Contributor]; Hallberg, Peter [Contributor]; Hálfdanarson, Guðmundur [Contributor]; Nielsen, Niels Kayser [Contributor]; Skirbekk, Gunnar [Contributor]; Slagstad, Rune [Contributor]; Stenius, Henrik [Contributor]; Stråth, Bo [Contributor]; Wittrock, Björn [Contributor]; Wittrock, Björn [Editor]; Árnason, Jóhann Páll [Contributor]; Árnason, Jóhann Páll [Editor]; Østergård, Uffe [Contributor]
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Published:
New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2012]
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9780857452702
- ISBN: 9780857452702
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- Keywords: Scandinavia Social policy ; HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
- Origination:
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Footnote:
In English
- Description: 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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