Bøger af Ruth Hemstad

Året 1814 blev skæbnesvangert for ‘ægteskabet’ mellem Danmark og Norge. Siden 1380 havde tvillingriget været vævet sammen i politik, sprog og finkultur, men efter 434 års samvær skød en svensk kronprins med krigslist og diplomatiske krumspring en kile ind i alliancen. I Danmark begræd man tabet af Norge, mens man i nord så anderledes mørkt på dansketiden, som man kaldte 400-årsnatten. Med skilsmissen vejrede nordmændene morgenluft, og en revolutionær grundlov pustede liv i håbet om, at solen snart kunne stå op igen over et selvstændigt norsk rige. Det tog mange år, før tilliden var genoprettet, og da danske skandinavister begyndte at prædike nordisk fællesskab, nægtede Norge at tro på, at eksen havde forandret sig. Bruddet var endegyldigt.Tag til skandinavisk parterapi med den norske historiker Ruth Hemstad fra Nasjonalbiblioteket og Universitetet i Oslo.

This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe.An actor- and practice-oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorisations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not, to underline both the synchronic and diachronic diversity of various pan-national movements. A range of expert international scholars discuss encounters, transfers, similarities and differences among pan-movements in Norden and Europe based on a broad empirical material, focusing on Scandinavianism/Nordism, pan-Slavism, pan-Turanism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism, and the position of Britishness in Great Britain.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of nationalism, European history, European studies and Scandinavian studies, history, social science, political geography, civil society and literary studies.

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. 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. 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.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. A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were formulated and discussed, and determined attempts were made to suppress divergent cultural voices in the drive to forge strong national or Scandinavian narratives. The results of these conflicts were the enduring cultural struggles that form the subject of this volume.The contributions at hand, by scholars from Denmark, Britain, Norway, the United States, and Germany, bring a broad and interdisciplinary perspective to bear on these distinctively Nordic themes. Aimed both at students and at established scholars, the chapters discuss the many facets of nationalism, its cultures, and its countercultures, as well as revisiting the historiography of the 1800–1930 period with a more pluralistic approach.