A Concise history of Finland [Texte imprimé]

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A Concise history of Finland [Texte imprimé]

David Kirby

Kirby David

Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2006

XI-343 p.

: 22 cm

: couv. ill.

0-521-53989-7

948.97

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Few contries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, politicla and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets the out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity, neither Scandinavian nor eastern european. he traces the evolution of the idea of a Finnish national state, from the long centuries as part of the Swedish realm, through self-government within the Russian Empire, and into the stormyand tragic birth of the independant state in the twentieth century.

Finlande

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