Sweden, Enlarged Edition: The Nation's History - Softcover

Franklin D. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809314894 ISBN 13: 9780809314898

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Steven Koblik’s epilogue extends Scott’s now standard text with an analysis of contemporary Swedish political, economic, and social behavior. In addition to the epilogue, Scott has made a number of alterations in the text in order to maintain the timeliness and comprehensiveness of the work.

Using a chronological-topical structure, Scott shows how and why Sweden progressed from times of backwardness to an age of military greatness, through two centuries of cultural development and relapse into poverty followed by a sudden outburst of productive energy and the creation of an exceptionally prosperous welfare state where the ideal is consensus rather than confrontation.

About this title

About the Author

Franklin D. Scott is Curator of Nordic Collections, Honnold Library of the Claremont Colleges, and Emeritus Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Steven Koblik is Professor of History at Pomona College, Claremont, California.

From the Back Cover

Scott provides a broad-based general history that is narrative and interpretive. It is not primarily political history or social history or military or religious history--rather, it partakes of the nature of all these and more as, in the kaleidoscope of events, it attempts to explain what happened and why.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809314894
• ISBN 13: 9780809314898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 744