Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Forming a Nation, 1814-1905
1 The 1814 Experience 23
2 Creating a Nation 39
3 Liberal Bureaucracy, Modern Society 55
4 The Road Towards Democracy 79
Part 2 Modernity, 1905-70
5 The 1905 Moment; How to Dissolve a Union Peacefully 95
6 Entering the Twentieth Century 107
7 The Interwar Years: An Expanding Political Spectrum 119
8 The War Experience: 1940-45 137
9 The Post-War Decades: Heyday of Social Democracy 149
Part 3 Still an Exception? The 1970s to the Present
10 The New Consensus of the 70s and 80s 169
11 Norway and the World: Europe and Oil at the Turn of the Millennium 189
12 Peaceful Coexistence or Polarization? Immigration and Identity 215
13 The Norwegian Exception? 233
Acknowledgements 247
Notes 249
Bibliography 255
Index 267