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Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity

Part of the Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Book Series (volume 37)

Editors: Naum, Magdalena; Nordin, Jonas M.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6202-6

ISBN: 978-1-4614-6201-9

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Jan 10, 2013

1 - 10 of 18 Chapters

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Introduction: Situating Scandinavian Colonialism

Naum, Magdalena; Nordin, Jonas M.

Pages: 3 –16

[In this introductory chapter we chart colonial aspirations and projects of early modern Scandinavian kingdoms and discuss political and economic thinking that fuelled and justified these projects. We situate Danish and Swedish colonial venture, ideology and economic concerns that stood behind...
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Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections?

Fur, Gunlög

Pages: 17 –36

[Historian Nils Ahnlund stirred a debate in 1937 by suggesting that Sweden was a weak and deficient coloniser. This outraged his listeners, who viewed seventeenth-century Sweden as a powerful nation. Such fault lines continue to suffuse characterisations of Sweden’s participation in global...
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Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean

Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Pálsson, Gísli

Pages: 37 –52

[For some time, scholars have stressed the centrality of colonialism and imperialism for European identity formations, in addition calling for increased destabilisation of the boundaries between colonised and colonisers, thus looking at colonialism in more nuanced ways. This chapter explores some...
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From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy

Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran

Pages: 53 –67

[The Swedish iron industry, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has been the most studied and analysed sector of the Swedish economy. As part of this research, local historians, business historians and technicians have raised questions about technological development, patterns of ownership,...
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Heritage Tourism in Tranquebar: Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Encounter?

Jørgensen, Helle

Pages: 69 –86

[Heritage tourism in a postcolonial context is often discussed as a practice of colonial nostalgia, or even neocolonialism. Yet the case of Tranquebar shows that a postcolonial interest in heritage may also promote dialogue and a more reflected reengagement with colonial history in the...
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Icelandic Archaeology and the Ambiguities of Colonialism

Lucas, Gavin; Parigoris, Angelos

Pages: 89 –104

[This chapter revolves around a central dilemma: whether to see Iceland as coloniser or colonised. On the one hand, it was clearly linked to the Danish project of colonialism outside Europe, benefiting from access to exotic goods and influenced by ideologies of race and whiteness. On the other...
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Circumventing Colonial Policies: Consumption and Family Life as Social Practices in the Early Nineteenth-Century Disko Bay

Toft, Peter A.; Seiding, Inge Høst

Pages: 105 –129

[Marriage and consumption were frequently regulated by colonial administrations. As a response, local populations invented new strategies to navigate within and around the restraints of colonial regulations. This study of archaeological and historical sources addresses how the inhabitants of the...
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Colonial Encounter in Early Modern Sápmi

Lindmark, Daniel

Pages: 131 –146

[The present chapter analyses state education of the indigenous Saami population in early modern Sweden. Making some initial comparisons between the Saami boarding school system of 1723 and the twentieth-century priest seminaries in Belgian Congo, the chapter presents two examples of Saami...
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Materialities on the Move: Identity and Material Culture Among the Forest Finns in Seventeenth-Century Sweden and America

Ekengren, Fredrik

Pages: 147 –165

[This chapter takes its departure in the persistent mythology surrounding the so-called forest Finns who migrated from Finland to Sweden and further on to America in the seventeenth century. The forest Finns have traditionally been regarded as a clear-cut and bounded ethnical group, represented...
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Sweden in the Delaware Valley: Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden

Ekengren, Fredrik; Naum, Magdalena; Wolfe, Ulla Isabel Zagal-Mach

Pages: 169 –187

[In 1637 the Swedish Crown, encouraged by Dutch merchants, developed a plan to establish a colonial outpost in America to tap into profitable tobacco and beaver pelt trade. The same year the first cargo ships left Sweden and sailed westwards to claim their piece of America along the Delaware...

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