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Nordic Estonia

Name: Nordic Estonia
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
SKU: 9780299362102
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESSISBN: 9780299362102

The Making of a Nation-State

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By Mart Kuldkepp
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Release Date: September 6, 2027
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 450 g
Pages: 320

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Like other Europeans, Estonian intellectuals were inspired in the early twentieth century to consider their nation's political future as empires faltered. Yet Estonia's path to self-determination was not initially imagined as full independence. Many Estonian elites regarded national autonomy as a more realistic goal, perhaps within a reformed Russia, but not necessarily only there. Memories of earlier Swedish rule, often cast as a golden age, supported hopes for reform, autonomy, and belonging within a broader Nordic, and specifically Swedish, political and cultural sphere, even though Sweden showed little interest in such an endeavor. Mart Kuldkepp argues that the Estonian independence moment was shaped by both geopolitics (recognizing how Estonia's location necessarily informs its political outlooks) and mnemopolitics (the political use of historical memory). Kuldkepp shows that although Estonia did not join an imagined Nordic polity, its Nordic orientation remained a serious ideological project with important consequences for state formation and interwar political culture, with reverberations lasting to the present day.

Mart Kuldkepp is a professor of Estonian and Nordic history at University College London. He is the author of The Shortest History of Scandinavia: From Vikings to the Cold War and the New Nordic Movement. His work has also been published in a number of edited volumes and journals, including Scandinavica, Scandinavian Journal of History, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Baltic Studies, and The Estonian Historical Journal.

Introduction PART I. Nordic Identity in Early Estonian Nationalism 1. National and Regional Identity 2. The Mnemopolitics of Estonia's Nordic Identity 3. The Political Awakening of 1905 4. The Geopolitics of Estonia's Nordic Identity PART II. Political Schemes During the First World War 5. Sweden Prepares for War 6. Swedish Activists, Germany and Finland 7. Visions of Swedish Dominance over the Baltics in 1914-1916 8. Activism and Estonian Nationalism 9. Aleksander Keskuela's Political Program 10. Democratization and Reorientation in 1917-1918 PART III. Baltic-Nordic Federalism and Estonian Independence 11. The First World War as a Window of Opportunity 12. Estonia's Moment of National Self-Determination 13. The Foreign Delegation Meets Aleksander Keskuela 14. The Goals of Early Estonian Foreign Policy in Scandinavia 15. Estonia's Nordic Ambitions in the Interwar Period Conclusion: Estonia's Nordic Identity and the Birth of Estonian Independence Notes Bibliography Index

"Skillfully argued, logically structured, and highly accessible, Nordic Estonia draws on sources from several disciplines and across several languages. A major achievement." - Carl Marklund, author of The Image of Sweden in the USA: History, Events and Mechanisms

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