The Story of Scandinavia
From the Vikings to Social Democracy
- Hardcover
496 pages
- Release Date
4 December 2023
Summary
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture.
Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European pow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474625197 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474625193 |
| Author: | Stein Ringen |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 164mm x 46mm |
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Critics Review
Carrying us from the Vikings to today, Stein Ringen’s sweeping narrative will engage and instruct everyone from specialists to first-timers. Scandinavia is another outstanding book from a writer remarkable for the breadth of his reach and the incisiveness of his analysis – James T. Kloppenberg, author * Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought *While not losing sight of the differences between the ways the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian social democrats navigated the local waters, Ringen skilfully teases out the common denominators … He also writes in a pleasant, breezy, non-nonsense style – Henrik Berggren * TLS *
About The Author
Stein Ringen
Stein Ringen is an international scholar of Norwegian origins. Since 1990, his base has been at the University of Oxford, where he is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Policy. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London, where he now lives.
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