Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionJóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn WittrockChapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, PerspectiveBo StråthChapter 2. The Danish Path to ModernityUffe ØstergårdChapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural CommunityNiels Kayser NielsenChapter 4. The Making of SwedenBjörn WittrockChapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary SwedenPeter HallbergChapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian ReformismRune SlagstadChapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization?Gunnar SkirbekkChapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and DifferencesRisto AlapuroChapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political CultureHenrik SteniusChapter 10. Icelandic AnomaliesJóhann Páll ÁrnasonChapter 11. ‘The Time Will Come’: Icelandic Modernity and the Role of NationalismGuðmundur HálfdanarsonNotes on Contributors

“…the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region… [and] a significant contribution to the discussion of multiple modernities.”  ·  Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada“The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualified to explore these themes; most of them have spent long and distinguished careers researching these or similar questions…As one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of scholarship displayed here.”  ·  H-Soz-u-Kult“…the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read…The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed…I find something compellingly interesting everywhere in the text. The combination of theory, conception and fact is quite gracefully handled. No heavy-footed jargon here.”  ·  Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley

Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionJóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn WittrockChapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, PerspectiveBo StråthChapter 2. The Danish Path to ModernityUffe ØstergårdChapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural CommunityNiels Kayser NielsenChapter 4. The Making of SwedenBjörn WittrockChapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary SwedenPeter HallbergChapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian ReformismRune SlagstadChapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization?Gunnar SkirbekkChapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and DifferencesRisto AlapuroChapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political CultureHenrik SteniusChapter 10. Icelandic AnomaliesJóhann Páll ÁrnasonChapter 11. ‘The Time Will Come’: Icelandic Modernity and the Role of NationalismGuðmundur HálfdanarsonNotes on Contributors

“…the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region… [and] a significant contribution to the discussion of multiple modernities.”  ·  Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada“The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualified to explore these themes; most of them have spent long and distinguished careers researching these or similar questions…As one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of scholarship displayed here.”  ·  H-Soz-u-Kult“…the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read…The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed…I find something compellingly interesting everywhere in the text. The combination of theory, conception and fact is quite gracefully handled. No heavy-footed jargon here.”  ·  Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley

Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionJóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn WittrockChapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, PerspectiveBo StråthChapter 2. The Danish Path to ModernityUffe ØstergårdChapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural CommunityNiels Kayser NielsenChapter 4. The Making of SwedenBjörn WittrockChapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary SwedenPeter HallbergChapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian ReformismRune SlagstadChapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization?Gunnar SkirbekkChapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and DifferencesRisto AlapuroChapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political CultureHenrik SteniusChapter 10. Icelandic AnomaliesJóhann Páll ÁrnasonChapter 11. ‘The Time Will Come’: Icelandic Modernity and the Role of NationalismGuðmundur HálfdanarsonNotes on Contributors

“…the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region… [and] a significant contribution to the discussion of multiple modernities.”  ·  Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada“The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualified to explore these themes; most of them have spent long and distinguished careers researching these or similar questions…As one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of scholarship displayed here.”  ·  H-Soz-u-Kult“…the chapters are lucidly composed, and consequently pleasant to read…The introduction by the editors is very fine indeed…I find something compellingly interesting everywhere in the text. The combination of theory, conception and fact is quite gracefully handled. No heavy-footed jargon here.”  ·  Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley