Scandinavia and the great powers in the first world war.
This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe's neutral small states in times of c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Series: | New approaches to international history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Scope, approach and content; Problem and key terms: What makes a certain power great and a particular state small? And what actually is neutrality?; Chapter 2: Comparing Neutralities: Neutral Allies, Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality and Great Power Politics; Chapter 3: Royal Diplomacy: Three Kings Posturing? Royal Diplomacy and Scandinavian Neutrality in the First World War; Introduction; Setting stages: Malmö in December 1914; Actors: Three kings, no queens
- Audience: The drama unfoldingConclusions: Royal diplomacy in Scandinavia as part of the European 'world-theatre'; Chapter 4: Activism and Politics: Activism, Diplomacy, and Swedish-German Relations during the First World War; Chapter 5: Intellectuals and War in Scandinavia and Beyond: 'The Whole World is Ruled by Schadenfreude': Georg Brandes's War; Chapter 6: State, Empire, and Revolution: Russia and Finland in the First World War: Thoughts on the Vanishing of a Grand Duchy in History and Memory; Myth, memory, and history; The grand duchy in Russian imperial policy
