Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia 1800-1930 Krogh Sine
Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia 1800-1930 Krogh Sine Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict - whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant…
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Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia 1800-1930 Krogh Sine
Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict - whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. Culture and Conflict: Nation-building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800-1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century.
A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and music. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were