{"product_id":"scandinavia-since-1500-second-edition-softcover","title":"Scandinavia Since 1500 - Second Edition Softcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 authoritative chronicle of five centuries of Scandinavian history incorporates the geopolitical developments and momentous events that have marked the Nordic world in recent decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScandinavia since 1500\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esituates 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. Within this framework, 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, as he ranges from canonical figures like Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Christian IV of Denmark to the constitutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the resistance movements in World War II, and the Scandinavian welfare states, literary culture, and modern design. Expanded to include the nature and realities of the increasingly postindustrial economies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—including environmental concerns, integration with Europe, globalization, and immigration—\u003ci\u003eScandinavia since 1500\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a comprehensive yet nuanced portrait of this unique region in all its political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eByron J. Nordstrom is professor emeritus in history and Scandinavian studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. He is author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture and Customs of Sweden\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe History of Sweden.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e416 pages \u003cbr\u003e21 black and white illustrations, 8 maps \u003cbr\u003e5.5 x 8.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491053584457,"sku":"1441","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0593\/7722\/1705\/files\/1411-minnesota-press-scandinavia-since-1500.jpg?v=1771007615","url":"https:\/\/shop.danishmuseum.org\/products\/scandinavia-since-1500-second-edition-softcover","provider":"Museum of Danish America Design Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}