The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

by Stein Ringen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474625215
• ISBN13: 9781474625210
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 544 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"