Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms

This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe.
An actor- and practice-oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorisations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not, to underline both the synchronic and diachronic diversity of various pan-national movements. A range of expert international scholars discuss encounters, transfers, similarities and differences among pan-movements in Norden and Europe based on a broad empirical material, focusing on Scandinavianism/Nordism, pan-Slavism, pan-Turanism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism, and the position of Britishness in Great Britain.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of nationalism, European history, European studies and Scandinavian studies, history, social science, political geography, civil society and literary studies.

Ruth Hemstad is Associate Professor II at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, and Research Librarian in History at the Department of Collections and Research, National Library of Norway. Peter Stadius is Professor of Nordic Studies and Research Director, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki.

1. Introduction: Scandinavianism and Nordism in a Europe of pan-national movements 2. Quixotic? Not quite: The context, agenda and legacy of macronational movements Part I: Scandinavianism and great power politics 3. Windows of opportunity and the political anatomy of Scandinavianism, 1848-1858 4. Highwater for political Scandinavianism, 1863-1865 5. Russian empire and pan-Scandinavianism: Grasping a moving target, 1840-1864 Part II: Pan-movements, international influences and networks 6. Pan-nationalism across borders: Scandinavianism in the community of nations, 1830-1870 7. Emil von Qvanten, Mikhail Bakunin and pan-national activist networks Part III: Nation-building and region-building: From Scandinavianism to Nordism 8. Literature and the construction of Scandinavian peoples in relation to Scandinavianism 9. Organised into existence: Scandinavianism and pan-Scandinavian associations within and beyond the region 10. Nordism as a remake of the Nordic-Scandinavian pan-nationalism Part IV: European pan-movements: Comparative perspectives 11. Constructive forgetting and reconciliatory memory in nineteenth-century historical fiction: A comparative perspective on Scandinavianism, pan-Germanism, and Greater Netherlandism 12. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Britishness and the UK, 1800-1925 13. Pan-Turanism and alternative pan-nationalisms in Finland 1917-1923 14. Pan-Slavism, its interpretative ambiguities and conflicting practices 15. Epilogue