Scandinavia since 1500, Byron J. Nordstrom
Scandinavia since 1500, Byron J. Nordstrom
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Scandinavia since 1500
Second Edition

Author: Byron J. Nordstrom

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2023


Synopsis

Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden—Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands—are united by bonds of culture, language, and geography, and by a shared history that comes richly to life in this landmark work. Now in an expanded, updated edition, this definitive chronicle of five centuries of Scandinavian history incorporates the geopolitical developments and momentous events that have marked the Nordic world in recent decades. Scandinavia since 1500 situates the region's political history within the traditional European chronology—in which the long "modern" period is subdivided into the Renaissance, early modern, modern, and contemporary. Byron J. Nordstrom traces the various ways in which economic, social, and cultural ideas and practices have come to Scandinavia from abroad, only to be modified and recast in a uniquely Nordic character. Long-unquestioned national mythologies come under Nordstrom's scrutiny, along with historical blind spots and erasures. Expanded to include the nature and realities of the increasingly postindustrial economies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Scandinavia since 1500 offers a comprehensive yet nuanced portrait of this unique region in all its political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural complexity.

Author Bio

Byron J. Nordstrom is professor emeritus in history and Scandinavian studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. He is author of Culture and Customs of Sweden and The History of Sweden.

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