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Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity
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​Introduction Colonialism and Swedish history – unthinkable connections?   Black on white: Danish colonialism, Iceland, and the Caribbean   Icelandic archaeology and the ambiguities of colonialism   Circumventing colonial policies – consumption and family life as social practice in the early 19th century Disco Bay, Greenland Colonial education and Saami resistance in early modern Sweden   The Forrest Finns in the 17th century Sweden and America   Sweden in Delaware Valley: everyday life and identities in New Sweden   Borderland in the Middle: The Delaware Colony on the Atlantic Coast   There and back again – the material culture of New Sweden. Towards an archaeology of hybridity of seventeenth century colonialism Sweden and the Atlantic: The dynamics of the Swedish colonial projects in the eighteenth century   African Ethnic Identities in a creolized world The Scandinavian outposts, forts, and plantations of West Africa   Portals of ’proto-globalization’: Material culture and consumption of commodities on the Gold Coast with special reference to the Danish enclaves   Danish heritage tourism in Tranquebar: Colonial nostalgia or postcolonial encounter?   Post scriptum: from Scandinavian colonialism to global questions of colonialism, modernity and materiality

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Magdalena Naum is a postdoctoral research fellow at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Her previous and current research focuses on late medieval migration in the Baltic Sea area and 17th c European colonies in Northern America, particularly New England and New Sweden. She is interested in organization of colonial settlements, in perception of America among the settlers and their homemaking practices. Jonas M Nordin is a researcher at the National Historical Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on relationship between early modern globalization, rise of capitalism and colonialism in Sweden. He is also studying the impact of trans-continental expansion and encounters with the New World on artefact collecting and early museums in Sweden.

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