The Scandinavian Early Modern World

The Scandinavian Early Modern World explores the early modern colonialism, globalization, and modernity in Scandinavia, along with its colonies, and its role in the shaping of the modern world. It **aims at students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology and history, alike.

Autorentext

Jonas Monié Nordin is an associate professor in historical archaeology at the University of Lund and a researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published widely in the field of early modern colonialism, globalization, and Scandinavian early modern archaeology.

Klappentext

The Scandinavian Early Modern World explores the early modern colonialism, globalization, and modernity in Scandinavia, along with its colonies, and its role in the shaping of the modern world. It aims at students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology and history, alike.

Inhalt

1. Situating Scandinavia in the early modern world

2. At sea to distant waters: silver, spices, whales and the making of a Scandinavian, Arctic, and Indian world

3.Living, producing, and industrializing in the early modern world

4.The alluring North: tying Northern Scandinavia to the global world

5.In America and back: connecting the Atlantic

6.On the Gold Coast: material, political, and social entanglement between West Africa and Scandinavia

7.People and colonial spaces: the Caribbean and Scandinavia revisited

8.Toxic modernity: connecting past and present