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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791745303321

Titolo

Nordic paths to modernity / / editors, Jóhann Páll Árnason, Björn Wittrock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-49671-1

9786613591944

0-85745-270-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->

WittrockBjörn

Disciplina

948

Soggetti

History

Scandinavia History 21st century

Scandinavia Social policy 21st century

Scandinavia Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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