UID:
edocfu_9961373475902883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)
ISBN:
1-280-49671-1
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9786613591944
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0-85745-270-3
Content:
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 som
Note:
Nordic Paths to Modernity; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Nordic Modernity; Chapter 2 - The Danish Path to Modernity; Chapter 3 - Denmark 1740-1940; Chapter 4 - The Making of Sweden; Chapter 5 - History and Ethics in Pre-revolutionary Sweden; Chapter 6 - The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism; Chapter 7 - Alternative Processes of Modernization?; Chapter 8 - Nordic and Finnish Modernity; Chapter 9 - Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture; Chapter 10 - Icelandic Anomalies; Chapter 11 - Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism; Notes on Contributors; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78238-684-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85745-269-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780857452702
