Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Sevaldsen, Jorgen, ed., with Bo Bjorke and Claus Bjorn

Edité par Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen Press2003, 2003

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Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the glossy pictorial cloth over boards, bright and shiny, clean, unmarked interior. From the publisher's blurb, "Since 1815, Denmark and Britain have lived in peace with each other. From the last half of the 19th century, massive British imports of Danish agricultural products gave Britain a central role in the Danish economy, likewise in the 20th century, British efforts in the two world wars became of crucial importance to Denmark's position in relation to Germany and, later, the Soviet Union. In the same period, the emergence of English as the first foreign language in Denmark facilitated the increasingly closer human and cultural contacts between the two countries. Britain and Denmark, written by Danish and British historians, constitutes the first attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of the roles that these two neighbouring countries have played in the lives of each other during the last two centuries. They are different in size and have had very different global and regional orientations. So, naturally, Britain has always loomed larger in Danish life and politics than the other way round. In many areas, however, relations have been close. The book covers contacts relating to trade, security policies and social and political theory, but also touch on mutual influences within the areas of literature, music, design etc. Most treatments of Danish political and cultural relations with the outside world in this period concentrate on Germany for the period up to 1945, and on the Soviet Union and the USA in the post-war world. In the same way, works on British contemporary history rarely devote much space to relations with the Nordic countries. The aim, therefore, of this book is to provide a supplement, and perhaps corrective, to the existing literature on the international positions of Britain and Denmark in the modern world." Contributions by the head editor, Jorgen Sevaldsen, and his assistants Bo Bjorke and Claus Bjorn, and also by Niels Clemmensen, Jens Rahbeck Rasmussen, Charlotte Werther, Carol-Axel Genzell, Andrew Lambert, Carsten Due-Nielsen, Kurt Jacobsen, Patrick Salmon, Bent Raymond Jorgensen, Knud J.V. Jesperson, Christian Toertzen and many others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [11], 12-658 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Éditeur: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen Press2003
• Date de parution: 2003
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: As New