Sweden, the nation's history /
Traces the development of Sweden from a poor, backward, warrior nation to a prosperous modern one.
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Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1988.
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Edition: | Enl. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of land and people
- The far-ranging Vikings
- The coming of Christianity
- Medieval Sweden
- The fifteenth century : the union that failed
- The sixteenth century : founding the national state
- Sweden's age of greatness : I. The struggle for empire and domestic reform, 1611-1654
- Sweden's age of greatness : II. Conquest, autocracy, and collapse, 1654-1718
- The age of freedom, 1718-71
- The Gustavian era
- The Bernadotte dynasty and the Union with Norway
- On the road to neutrality and peace, 1810-1914
- Social transformation of the nineteenth century
- The democratic breakthrough of the nineteenth century : I. Political reforms and disruptive issues
- The democratic breakthrough of the nineteenth century : II. Folk movements and political parties
- The industrial breakthrough
- Sweden and World War I, 1914-1918
- Democratic Sweden, 1918-1945
- The era of the welfare state
- The multifaceted culture of the twentieth century
- Epilogue : Sweden and the crisis of the welfare state.