Table of Contents: 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scott, Franklin D. 1901-1994.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1988.
Edition:	Enl. ed.
Subjects and Genres:	0000-1986. Geschichte > Schweden. Geschichte Sweden > History. Suède > Histoire. Sweden. Schweden SuÉcia (HistÓria) History.
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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.