Making Nordic Historiography: Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970

Contents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction. Nordic historiography: from methodological nationalism to empirical transnationalism\nChapter 1. Writing our history: the history of the ‘Finnish people’ (as written) by Zacharias Topelius and Väinö Linna\nChapter 2. The impact of Grundtvig’s ideology on Icelandic historiography\nChapter 3. Cultural aspects of the pan-Scandinavian movement: the perspective of historians\nChapter 4. National, international or transnational? Works and networks of the early Nordic historians of society\nChapter 5. Scientific historiography and its discontents: Danish and Swedish ‘aristocratic empiricism’\nChapter 6. Nationalist internationalism: Danish and Norwegian historical research in the aftermath of the First World War\nChapter 7. Nordic networks at work: power struggles in the Scandinavian historical field, 1935–1942\nChapter 8. The rhythm and implicit canon of Nordic history by Eli F. Heckscher and Eino Jutikkala\nChapter 9. Negotiating Norden: Nordic historians revising history textbooks, 1920–1970\nChapter 10. Loneliness: being a woman in the Nordic community of historians\nChapter 11. Trans-Nordic neo-empiricism in a European setting – or, why did Foucault leave Uppsala?\nIndex