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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Translator’s Note
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Beginnings of Time
The Country’s First Inhabitants
Vikings and Crusades
The Emergence of the Swedish Realm
Agriculture and Trade
2. The Birth of the Principality
The Kalmar Union
Reformation Politics
Administration and Economy
War and Family Feuds
3. Great Power of the North
Impetus for Expansion
In the Time of the Count
Green Gold
A Homogeneous Lutheran Culture
Absolutism and Catastrophe
4. Stockholm—St Petersburg
City on the Neva and Fortress of Sveaborg
Economic and Social Transformation
The Age of Utility
The Gustavian Era
The Finnish War
5. Pax Russica
Union with Russia
The Imperial Stamp
The Long Farewell
National Awakening
The Crimean War
6. Growing Autonomy
Parliament Revitalised
National and Global Politics
The Dawn of Industrialisation
Civic Society
Cultural Expression
Opposition and Rupture
7. War and Independence
Revolution and War
Towards Parliamentary Democracy
Growth and Technology
National, Modern, Popular
Lessons of the Winter War
Ambivalent Allies
8. Welfare and Neutrality
In the Shadow of the Cold War
Socio-Economic Changes
Social and Urban Developments
Cultural Revolution
Active Foreign Policy
Shift of Power
9. Finland and Europe
Rapid Realignment to the West
Sharp Turns in the Economy
National Deconstruction?
European Perspectives
Bibliography
Index
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