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The Story of Scandinavia
From the Vikings to Social Democracy
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In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language, and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to...
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An epic new history of Scandinavia, from the Viking Age to the present day
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In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language, and culture.
Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations.
The brand we now know as Scandinavia is a recent invention. During most of its history, Denmark and Sweden, and to some degree Norway, were bloody enemies. These sentiments of enmity have not been fully settled. Under the surface of collaboration remain undercurrents of hatred, envy, contempt, and pity.
What does it mean today to be Scandinavian? For the author, whose identity is Scandinavian but his life European, this masterly history is a personal exploration as well as a narrative of compelling scope.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781474625210
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 September 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Illustration: At least one line-drawn map
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 360g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Stein Ringen is an international scholar of Norwegian origins. Since 1990, his base has been at the University of Oxford, where he is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Policy. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King's College, London, where he now lives.
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