Skandinaviens och Östersjöregionens historia: 1850-2000, 7.5 högskolepoäng

 

Books and chapters

Davis, Norman, Heart of Europe. The Past in Poland´s Present (Oxford University Press 2001) Pp. 1-137, 273 – 311, 175 pages

Henrik Meinander, A History of Finland, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd 2011, (chapter 6+7), 133-212 (ca. 80 pages)

Andres Kasekamp, A history of the Baltic states (Palgrave 2012), chapter 5, parts of chapters 4 and 6 (ca. 70 pages).

Øystein Sørensen & Bo Stråth (Ed.), The Cultural Construction of Norden (Scandinavian University press 1997). Chapter 1 +2, (ca. 70 pages)

Witold Maciejewski (ed.), The Baltic Sea Region – Cultures, Politics, Societies, The Baltic University Press, Uppsala 2002, pp 79-104 + ca. 20 pages. Free download via: https://www.balticuniv.uu.se/bup-resources/course-materials/area-studies/

 

Articles

Marko Lehti, Matti Jutila & Markku Jokisipilä (2008) Never-Ending Second World War: Public Performances of National Dignity and the Drama of the Bronze Soldier, Journal of Baltic Studies, 39:4, 393-418, DOI: 10.1080/01629770802461175  

Fredrika Björklund, “The East European ‘Ethnic Nation’: Myth or Reality?”, European Journal of Political Research 45:1 (2006), pp. 93–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2005.00292.x

H. Arnold Barton (2006): Finland and Norway, 1808–1917, Scandinavian Journal of History, 31:3-4, 221-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468750600930746

Pauliina Raento (2008): Introduction: Nation, state and identity in Finland, National Identities, 10:1, 1-4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14608940701819736

Ville Kivimäki (2012): Between Defeat And Victory: Finnish memory culture of the Second World War, Scandinavian Journal of History, 1-24 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2012.680178

Johan Östling. (2008). Swedish Narratives of the Second World War: A European Perspective. Contemporary European History, 17(2), 197-211. doi:10.1017/S0960777308004372  

Norbert Götz, The Case of the Baltic Sea Area. Spatial Politics and fuzzy Regionalism, in: Baltic Worlds BW 3:2016, pp 54-67. Free download: http://balticworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BW-3-2016-norbert.pdf  

Marta Grzechnik (2012): Making Use of the Past: The Role of Historians in Baltic Sea Region Building, Journal of Baltic Studies, 43:3, 329-343

Kazimier Musial, Benevolent Assistance and Cognitive Colonisation: Nordic Involvement with the Baltic States since the 1990s. In: Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004305496_014

Marco Siddi & Barbara Gaweda (2019) The national agents of transnational memory and their limits: the case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 27:2, 258-271, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2019.1584096

Tomas Balkelis (2015) War, Revolution and Terror in the Baltic States and Finland after the Great War, Journal of Baltic Studies, 46:1, 1-9, DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1009685

 

Several online sources in form of videos, blogs and other texts will be added as seminar material.