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Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms: A Reappraisal and Comparison, 1840–1940 book cover

1st Edition

Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms A Reappraisal and Comparison, 1840–1940

Edited By Ruth Hemstad, Peter Stadius Copyright 2023
300 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe. An actor- and practice-oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorisations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not, to underline both the... Read more

1. Introduction: Scandinavianism and Nordism in a Europe of pan-national movements

Ruth Hemstad and Peter Stadius

2. Quixotic? Not quite: The context, agenda and legacy of macronational movements

Joep Leerssen

Part I: Scandinavianism and great power politics

3. Windows of opportunity and the political anatomy of Scandinavianism, 1848−1858

Morten Nordhagen Ottosen

4. Highwater for political Scandinavianism, 1863‒1865

Rasmus Glenthøj

5. Russian empire and pan-Scandinavianism: Grasping a moving target, 1840‒1864

Evgenii Egorov

Part II: Pan-movements, international influences and networks

6. Pan-nationalism across borders: Scandinavianism in the community of nations, 1830−1870

Niri Ragnvald Johnsen

7. Emil von Qvanten, Mikhail Bakunin and pan-national activist networks

Mikael Björk-Winberg and Evgenii Egorov

Part III: Nation-building and region-building: From Scandinavianism to Nordism

8. Literature and the construction of Scandinavian peoples in relation to Scandinavianism

Anna Bohlin

9. Organised into existence: Scandinavianism and pan-Scandinavian associations within and beyond the region

Ruth Hemstad

10. Nordism as a remake of the Nordic-Scandinavian pan-nationalism

Peter Stadius

Part IV: European pan-movements: Comparative perspectives

11. Constructive forgetting and reconciliatory memory in nineteenth-century historical fiction: A comparative perspective on Scandinavianism, pan-Germanism, and Greater Netherlandism

Tim van Gerven

12. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Britishness and the UK, 1800−1925

Alvin Jackson

13. Pan-Turanism and alternative pan-nationalisms in Finland 1917−1923

Ainur Elmgren

14. Pan-Slavism, its interpretative ambiguities and conflicting practices

Stefano Petrungaro

15. Epilogue

Peter Stadius

Biography

Ruth Hemstad is Associate Professor II at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, and Research Librarian in History at the Department of Collections and Research, National Library of Norway.

Peter Stadius is Professor of Nordic Studies and Research Director, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki.

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