Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries

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Acknowledgements

Earlier versions of most of these papers were presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 1 March 2008. We would like to thank all who attended the session, and the anonymous referees for their useful comments.

Notes

1 Hettne, Sörlin and Østergård, Den globala nationalismen, 23, 39.

2 Burch, ‘Norway and 1905’, 2–3; Engman, ‘Var och hur skall vi fira 2008–2009?’. See also the official commemorative year website: http://www.1809.fi/etusivu/fi.jsp (accessed 20 May 2009).

3 See Berggren and Trägårdh, Är svensken människa?

4 Trägårdh, ‘Welfare State Nationalism’; Pred, ‘Memory and the Cultural Reworking of Crisis’.

5 Musiał, Roots of the Scandinavian Model, 31, 42–66.

6 Musiał, Roots of the Scandinavian Model, 75, 89. See also Carl Marklund's paper in this issue.

7 See also Ruth, ‘The Second New Nation’.

8 See Stråth, ‘Introduction. Nordic Modernity’, 77.

9 Logue, ‘The Swedish Model’, 164.

10 Huntford, The New Totalitarians; see also Hale, ‘Brave New World in Sweden?’

11 See for example, Postgate, ‘Journey to Sweden’; Friedman and Friedman, ‘Sverige: från nationalstat till pluralt samhälle’.

12 Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History.

13 Andersson, ‘The People's Library and the Electronic Workshop’.

14 Childs, Sweden – the Middle Way; see also Cole and Smith, eds., Democratic Sweden; Simon, The Smaller Democracies; Aucante, ‘La chasse au modèle’.

15 Stråth, Folkhemmet mot Europa.

16 S⊘rensen and Stråth, ‘Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Norden’, 20.

17 S⊘rensen and Stråth, ‘Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Norden’, 21.

18 Knudsen, ed., Den nordiske protestantisme og velfærdsstaten, 11, 42.

19 Österberg, ‘Bönder och centralmakt i det tidigmoderna Sverige’; Aronsson, Bönder gör politik; for critique see Harnesk, ‘Den svenska modellens tidigmoderna rötter?’

20 Stadius, Resan till norr; Wells, ed., The Discovery of Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia; Wawn, The Vikings and the Victorians.

21 Judt, ‘The Past is Another Country’, 315.

22 Wæver, ‘Nordic Nostalgia’.

23 Lauristin, ‘Contexts of Transition’, 26–40. See also Kazimierz Musiał’s contribution to this volume.

24 Niklas Johansson, ‘Sverige og Danmark: Nu svider sandheden i Sverige’, Politiken, 31 March 2006; Kristian Lindberg, ‘I er alt for overfladiske’, Berlingske Tidende, 15 November 2006.

25 Sejersted, Socialdemokratins tidsålder.

26 Engman, ‘Är Finland ett nordiskt land?’ 72.

27 Janfelt, Att leva i det bästa av världar, 149.

28 Bergholm, ‘The Making of the Finnish Model’, 29. For example, see Andersson, Kosonen and Vartiainen, The Finnish Model of Economic and Social Policy; Saari, ed., Suomen malli; both cited in Bergholm, ‘The Making of the Finnish Model’.

29 ‘Flexicurity’, The Economist, 7 September 2006; Ornston, ‘Reorganising Adjustment’; Bergholm, ‘The Making of the Finnish Model’.

30 Purvis, ‘Sweden's Model Approach to Financial Disaster’.

31 Pred, Recognizing European Modernities; Andersson, ‘Baklänges in i framtiden: om folkhemsnostalgi och andra framtidsvisioner’.

32 Lundberg and Tydén, Sverigebilder, 19–21. See also Nikolas Glover's contribution to this volume.

33 Wiklund, I det modernas landskap, 91.

34 On Scandinavian detective fiction see, for example, Nestingen, Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia.