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Informationen zum Autor Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010). Björn Wittrock is Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, and University Professor at Uppsala University. He has published extensively, currently eighteen books, in the fields of intellectual history, historical social science, social theory and civilizational analysis. Recent publications include: Frontiers of Sociology (co-editor, Brill 2009) and Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (co-editor, Brill 2004). Klappentext 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 some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be emulated in other settings; and of the specific features that still set the five countries in question (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The contributors explore transformative processes, above all the change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that will have significant implications on future developments. Zusammenfassung 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 centered on the Nordic modelA" of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century... Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Jóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn Wittrock Chapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, Perspective Bo Stråth Chapter 2. The Danish Path to Modernity Uffe Østergård Chapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural Community Niels Kayser Nielsen Chapter 4. The Making of Sweden Björn Wittrock Chapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary Sweden Peter Hallberg Chapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism Rune Slagstad Chapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization? Gunnar Skirbekk Chapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and Differences Risto Alapuro Chapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture Henrik Stenius Chapter 10. Icelandic Anomalies Jóhann Páll Árnason Chapter 11. 'The Time Will Come': Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism Guðmundur Hálfdanarson Notes on Contributors ...
