History of the Norwegian People, Volume 2

by Knut Gjerset

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History
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English
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A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. This second volume deals with Norwegian History from the 14th century to beyond Norwegian independence from Sweden in 1905, and covers topics such as: The Kalmar Union, early Democratic reforms, The Reformation in Norway, Norwegian Emigration, Separation of Norway and Denmark, war of 1814, Norway and the Union with Sweden, as well as Norwegians in the United States (Summary by Ærik Bjørnsson)

Chapters

Political Union an Era of Transition

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King Magnus Smek. The Union of Norway and Sweden

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Other Causes Contributing to the Intellectual and National Decadence

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The Reign of Haakon Magnusson the Younger

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The Hanseatic League Gains Ascendancy in the North

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Other Features of Haakon Magnusson's Reign

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The Union of Norway and Denmark. Queen Margaret

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The Kalmar Union

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King Eirik in Pomerania

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An Embryo Democracy

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King Christopher

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Christian I. of Denmark and Karl Knutsson of Sweden

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The Reign of King Hans (John)

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Literature and Intellectual Life in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

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Local and General Administration

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Christian II. The Dawn of a New Era

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Christian II. the Tyrant. The Stockholm Massacre

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The Struggle for Norway. Christian II

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The Count's War. Christian III

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The Reformation in Norway

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The Reign of Christian III

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Frederick II. The Seven Years' War with Sweden

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Norwegian Internal Administration in the Reign of Frederick II

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Intellectual and Social Conditions in Norway in the Sixteenth Century

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Christian IV. and His Age

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Foreign Relations. The Kalmar War

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New National Growth. Hannibal Sehested. A New War with Sweden

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Frederick III

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Hereditary Kingship. The Introduction of Absolutism

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Foreign Relations

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Norwegian Emigration to Holland, England, Russia and America in the Seventeenth Century and Later

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The Close of the Reign of Frederick III. Christian V. The Gyldenløve War

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Internal and Foreign Affairs in the Reign of Christian V

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Economic and Social Conditions in Norway in the Seventeenth Century

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Norwegian Literature in the Seventeenth Century

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Education and the Church

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Frederick IV. The Great Northern War

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King Charles XII. in Norway

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King Charles XII.'s Second Invasion of Norway

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The Closing Years of the Reign of Frederick IV. Social and Economic Conditions

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Christian VI. The Age of Pietism

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Mercantilism and Commercial Stagnation

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Development of Modern Danish-Norwegian Literature. The Age of Ludvig Holberg

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Frederick V

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Christian VII. and Queen Carolina Mathilda. The Struensee Period

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Prince Frederick and Ove Høeg-Goldberg. A Period of Reaction

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Crown Prince Frederick and A. P. Bernstorff. Increasing Unrest in Norway. Chr. J. Lofthus. War with Sweden, 1788

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Danish-Norwegian Literature in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

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Revolution and Despotism. Denmark-Norway's Foreign Policy, 1792-1814

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The Gradual Dissolution of the Danish-Norwegian Partnership

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Events Leading to the Separation of Norway and Denmark

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Norway Gains Her National Independence in 1814

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The Meeting of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvold. The Framing of the Norwegian Constitution

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The War of 1814. The Convention of Moss and Union with Sweden

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Sentiments and Conditions after 1814

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The Reign of Charles John. The Relation to Sweden

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Young Norway. Henrik Wergeland and Johan Sebastian Welhaven. Literary and Intellectual Revival

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Political Progress. New Men and Measures

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Oscar I. Romanticism and Pan-Scandinavianism

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Political Reaction. The Labor Movement

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King Charles XV. Beginning of a New Literary Development

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New Political Struggles. Proposed Revision of the Act of Union

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Important Reform Measures Passed in the Reign of Charles XV. The Rise of the Liberal or Venstre Party

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Oscar II. The Office of Statholder Abolished. The Veto Question

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Further Development of the Norwegian Literary and Cultural Renaissance

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The Sverdup Ministry. Norway under Parliamentary Government

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The Demand for a Separate Norwegian Foreign Office and Consular Service

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Political and Social Conditions, 1905-1914

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Norwegian Emigration to America. The Norwegians in the United States

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