Learning outcomes

The aim is to give student a basic knowledge on the modernisation processes in Nordic Countries c. 1800 - 2000 AD.

Contents

The unit gives insights to industrialization, nationalism, socialism, the emergence of the civic society, and social issues such as labour and gender.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

Course material for book examinations and/or as written assignments:

 

Please choose two of the following according to your own interests:

Hall, Thomas (ed), Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries (1991)

Heikkinen, Sakari, Labour and Market. Workers, Wages and Living Standards in Finland 1850-1913 (1997)

Hietala, Marjatta, Services and Urbanization at the Turn of the Century. The Diffusion of Innovations (1989)

Kirby, David, The Baltic World, 1772-1993. Europe’s Norther Periphery in an Age of Change

(1995)

Polvinen, Tuomo, Imperical Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898-1904 (1995)

Hjerppe, Riitta, The Finnish Economy 1860—1985. Growth and Structural Change (1989)

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