| Description |
1 online resource (324 pages) |
| Series |
Contributions to global historical archaeology |
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Contributions to global historical archaeology.
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| Contents |
Part I. Charting Scandinavian Colonialism. Introduction: Situating Scandinavian Colonialism / Magdalena Naum, Jonas M. Nordin -- Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections? / Gunlög Fur -- Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean / Kristín Loftsdóttir, Gísli Pálsson -- From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy / Chris Evans, Göran Rydén -- Heritage Tourism in Tranquebar: Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Encounter? / Helle Jørgensen -- Part II. Colonizing the North. Icelandic Archaeology and the Ambiguities of Colonialism / Gavin Lucas, Angelos Parigoris -- Circumventing Colonial Policies: Consumption and Family Life as Social Practices in the Early Nineteenth-Century Disko Bay / Peter A. Toft, Inge Høst Seiding -- Colonial Encounter in Early Modern Sápmi / Daniel Lindmark -- Materialities on the Move: Identity and Material Culture Among the Forest Finns in Seventeenth-Century Sweden and America / Fredrik Ekengren -- Part III. Venturing Into the World: Scandinavian Colonies in America, Africa and Asia. Sweden in the Delaware Valley: Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden / Fredrik Ekengren, Magdalena Naum, Ulla Isabel Zagal-Mach Wolfe -- Borderland in the Middle: The Delaware Colony on the Atlantic Coast / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- There and Back Again: A Study of Travelling Material Culture in New and Old Sweden / Jonas M. Nordin -- Sweden and the Atlantic: The Dynamism of Sweden's Colonial Projects in the Eighteenth Century / Eric Schnakenbourg -- The Danish Gold Coast as a Multinational and Entangled Space, c. 1700-1850 / Holger Weiss -- The 1733 Slave Revolt on the Island of St. John: Continuity and Change from Africa to the Americas / Louise Sebro -- Networked Interaction: Archaeological Exploration of Walled and Terraced House Compounds in the Danish Colonial Port Town of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas / Douglas V. Armstrong, Christian Williamson, Alan D. Armstrong -- Part IV. Post Scriptum: Reflections. Insinuations: Framing a New Understanding of Colonialism / Audrey Horning -- Colonial Encounters of the Nordic Kind / James Symonds |
| Summary |
In Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa, Asia and America as well as within Scandinavia itsself. They discuss early modern thinking and theories made valid and developed in early modern Scandinavia that justified and propagated participation in colonial expansion. The volume demonstrates a broad and comprehensive spectrum of archaeological, anthropological and history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Civilization
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Imperialism
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Scandinavia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85117940
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Scandinavia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85117952
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| Subject |
Scandinavia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Naum, Magdalena, 1976-
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Monié Nordin, Jonas, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9781461462026 |
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1461462029 |
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