The Development of Scandinavia in a European Context

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Scandinavian Languages, grade: 2,0, Göteborg University (Cutltural Sciences), course: Scandinavien Studies: Cultural and Social Perspectives, language: English, abstract: This essay gives an account of the main periods in swedish history from 10.000 BC to 1250 AD, and describes when and how the kingdom of Sweden was established. Furthermore it provides an overview over the constitutional and political changes in Sweden between 1718 and 1974 that established Sweden as a welfare state.

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Lisa Gutman, geboren 1989 in Berlin, studierte Germanistik und Skandinavistik in Greifswald und Göteborg, bevor sie sich im Masterstudium an der Freien Universität Berlin auf Neuere deutsche Literatur spezialisierte. Heute lebt und arbeitet sie im Südwesten Berlins.