Introduction - what is Denmark and who are the Danes?; foreign and security policy - from gatekeeper of the Baltic to a midget state; domestic policy, 1500-1848 - the era of aristocracy and absolutism; domestic policy, 1848-2000 - democracy and the welfare state; the church and culture from Luther to postmodernism; economic conditions - the old Denmark, 1500-1800; economic conditions - the new Denmark, 1800-2000;the Danes - a tribe or a nation?
KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southern Denmark and Royal Historiographer to H.M. the Queen of Denmark.
"An eminently approachable and readable introduction to Danish history."--Thomas Munck, University of Glasgow
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