Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive transnational study of post-Napoleonic Scandinavian history written in English
- Explores Scandinavianist ideology relative to nationalism in Europe and the concept of ‘realist nationalism’
- Shows how the First Schleswig War between Denmark and Germany was nearly a war of Scandinavian unification
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Keywords
- nationalism
- Napoleonic Wars
- German Wars of Unification
- nineteenth century
- ideology
About this book
This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter of size. Whereas their union of 1814 offered Sweden-Norway geostrategic security tempered by fear of Russia, Denmark was the biggest territorial loser of the Napoleonic Wars and faced separatism connected to German nationalism in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This evolved into a national conflict that threatened Denmark’s survival as a nation. Meanwhile, a new generation of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians had come to regard kindred language, culture and religion as a case for Scandinavian union that could offer protection against Russia and Germany. When the European revolutions of 1848 unleashed the First Schleswig War, the influence of Scandinavianism was such that it nearly turned into a Scandinavian war of unification.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Rasmus Glenthøj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark.
Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scandinavia After Napoleon
Book Subtitle: The Genesis of Scandinavianism
Authors: Morten Nordhagen Ottosen, Rasmus Glenthøj
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46560-4Due: 05 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46563-5Due: 05 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46561-1Due: 05 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 378