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Jason Lavery. The History of Finland.

Publication: Scandinavian Studies
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jason Lavery. The History of Finland.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Jason Lavery. The History of Finland. Greenwood Histories of The Modern Nations. Eds. Frank Thackeray and John E. Findling. Westport: Greenwod. 2006.

Jason Lavery's The History of Finland contributes a concise, fluid, comprehensive, and accessible account of the country's history to the literature on Finland and the Nordic countries. Following an introductory chapter, the study proceeds chronologically. The introduction outlines the country's geography, climate, form of government, religions, educational system, economy, foreign policy, as well as sketches some of the special features of the country's historical experience. A subsequent chapter surveys the country's prehistory. The book then moves through chapters devoted to the conventional periods of Finnish history: a chapter on the...



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