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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 result of these conflicts was the
enduring cultural struggles and culture wars that form the subject
of this volume. The contributions, 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.
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