Norway-Sweden
Title | Norway-Sweden PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond E. Lindgren |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 140087825X |
The Scandinavian countries today form a security-community for economic cooperation and the settlement of international controversy by peaceful methods rather than by war. This status was achieved not while Norway and Sweden were amalgamated in a political union from 1814 to 1905, but only after separation. In this book Dr. Lindgren analyzes some of the forces underlying the failure and dissolution of the Norway-Sweden union. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Sweden and Visions of Norway
Title | Sweden and Visions of Norway PDF eBook |
Author | Hildor Arnold Barton |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780809324415 |
H. Arnold Barton investigates Norwegian political and cultural influences in Sweden during the period of the Swedish-Norwegian dynastic union from 1814 to 1905. Although closely related in origins, indigenous culture, language, and religion, Sweden and Norway had very different histories, resulting in strongly contrasting societies and forms of government before 1814. After a proud medieval past, Norway had come under the Danish crown in the fourteenth century and had been reduced to virtually a Danish province by the sixteenth. In 1814, as a spin-off of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark relinquished Norway, which became a separate kingdom, dynastically united with Sweden with its own government under a constitution independently framed that year. Disputes during the next ninety-one years caused Norway unilaterally to dissolve the tie. Seeing the union a failure, most historians have concentrated on its conflicts. Barton, however, examines the impact of the union on internal developments, particularly in Sweden. Prior to 1814, Norway, unlike Sweden, had no constitution and only the rudiments of higher culture, yet paradoxically, Norway exerted a greater direct influence on Sweden than vice versa. Reflecting a society lacking a native nobility, Norway's 1814 constitution was--with the exception of that of the United States--the most democratic in the world. It became the guiding star of Swedish liberals and radicals striving to reform the antiquated system of representation in their parliament. Norway's cultural void was filled with a stellar array of artists, writers, and musicians, led by Bj rnsjerne B rnson, Henrik Ibsen, and Edvard Grieg. From the 1850s through the late 1880s, this wave of Norwegian creativity had an immense impact on literature, art, and music in Sweden. By the 1880s, however, August Strindberg led a revolt against an exaggerated "Norvegomania" in Sweden. Barton sees this reaction as a fundamental inspiration to Sweden's intense search for its own cultural character in the highly creative Swedish National Romanticism of the 1890s and early twentieth century. Thirty-three illustrations of art and architecture enhance Sweden and Visions of Norway.
Norway and the Union with Sweden
Title | Norway and the Union with Sweden PDF eBook |
Author | Fridtjof Nansen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Constitutional history |
ISBN |
Civic Engagement in Scandinavia
Title | Civic Engagement in Scandinavia PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Skov Henriksen |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-10-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319987178 |
Since the 1990’s, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Often these countries have been considered deviant cases against the proliferating decline of social capital studies. However, despite great international interest in the Scandinavian region, the volume argues that the civil societies and the civic engagement of these countries remain poorly understood. Most interest in the Scandinavian welfare models addresses the balance between state and market, but under communicates the role played by civil society and popular engagement in associations and voluntary organizations. The contributions offer a coherent portrait of stability and change in formal and informal forms of civic engagement over the past 25 years as well as offering contextualized knowledge of the history and institutional design in which Scandinavian civil societies are embedded.
Norway. Sweden. Denmark
Title | Norway. Sweden. Denmark PDF eBook |
Author | Burton Holmes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Voyages and travels |
ISBN |
A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland
Title | A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland PDF eBook |
Author | John Murray (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Denmark |
ISBN |
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Title | Norway, Sweden, and Denmark PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Baedeker (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 748 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Denmark |
ISBN |