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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2014
      July 2006
      ISBN:
      9781107280229
      9780521832250
      9780521539890
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280229
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.599kg, 362 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Concise Histories
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Concise Histories
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    Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets 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 stormy and tragic birth of the independent state in the twentieth century.

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    2007 Outstanding Academic Title -- Choice Magazine

    "In his impressive work...University College of London Professor David Kirby exemplifies both the importance of Finland to the expansion of the Swedish and Russian empires and the struggle to attain an independent Finnish identity amidst unwavering interference by its neighbors to the east and west." -Kenneth Shonk Jr., World History Bulletin

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