Description: The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and America. Presenting the latest research on political culture in Scandinavia, this volume with twenty-seven contributions focuses on four key aspects: the crisis of monarchy; the transformation in political debate; the emerging influence of commercial interest in politics; and the shifting boundaries of political participation. Generously illustrated throughout, this book will introduce non-Scandinavian readers to developments in the Nordic countries during the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries and both complement and challenge research into the political cultures of Europe and America.
Review Quotes: 'This work is an excellent summary of recent research on eighteenth-century Scandinavia, and its extensive bibliography is a useful blend of both Scandinavian and non-Scandinavian sources.' The Historian '... the authors of Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution provide to a wide audience a compounded set of exciting results from research inspired by methodological innovations in the last few decades within social history, the history of ideas and cultural history.' History of European Ideas