Bo Stråth

Professor

Bo Stråth (Curriculum Vitae) was 2007-2014 Finnish Academy Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History and Director of Research at the Department of World Cultures / Centre of Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki. 1997-2007 he was Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence, and 1991-1996 Professor in History at the University of Gothenburg. He is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Reviews, Surveys, Debates

by | Jan 1, 2020 | Publications

100. “Bortom identitetsdiskursen” i Fortid. Studentenes Historietidsskrift UiO N3 1 2023

99. Review of Aryo Makko, European Small States and the Role of Consuls in the Age of Empire. Leiden: Brill 2020 in Scandia Nr 1 2021

98. Review of Willibald Steinmetz, Europa im 19. Jahrhundert. Neue Fischer Weltgeschichtwe. Bd 6. Fischer 2019 in Redescriptions Nr 2 2021

97. “World War and Revolution: the Spring and Springs of Democracy.” Review of  Pasi Ihalainen, The Springs of Democracy. National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919. Helsinki: Finish Literature Society (SKS) Studia Fennica 2017 586 pp in Redescriptions Vol 21 No 2 Autumn 2018

96. “Herbert Blomstedts samlingar” in: Jenny Björkman and Arne Jarrick (eds), Musikens makt. Vänbok till Göran Blomqvist. RJ:s årsbok 2018. Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2018: 88-393.

95. Review of Erik Bodensten, “Politikens drivfjädrar. Frihetstidens partiberättelser och den moralpolitiska logiken.” Studia Historica Lundensia 2016 in Scandia 83/2 2017: 140-144

94. “‘I den bästa av världar…’ Christopher Hope − Jimfish or Ten Years on the Wrong Side of History” in Dixikon 1 June 2017. www.dixikon.se/hope-jimfish

93. “Den globala värdekrisen och utopierna om framtiden”. Revyessä i Dixikon. URL 07.12.2016 https://www.dixikon.se/bo-strath-populism/

92. “När var demokratin?” (When was the Democracy?). Review essay in Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo) Nr 2 2016: 269-291

91. Review of Sven Eliaeson, Patricia Mindus, and Stephen P Turner (eds), Axel Hägerström and Modern Social Thought. Oxford Bardwell Press 2014 in Max Weber Studies Vol 16 Nr 1 2016: 132-138

90. Review of Tibor Frank och Frank Hadler (eds), Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts. Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe. Vol VI Writing the Nation Series:  National Historiographies and the Making of Nation States in 19th and 20th Century Europe. General Editors Stefan Berger, Christoph Conrad and Guy P. Marchal. London: Palgrave MacMillan 2011 xiv + 430 pp and Stefan Berger with Christoph Conrad, The Past as History. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe. Vol VIII Writing the Nation Series: National Historiographies and the Making of Nation States in 19th and 20th Century Europe. General Editors Stefan Berger, Christoph Conrad and Guy P. Marchal. London: Palgrave MacMillan 2015 xiii + 570 pp in Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo) Nr 1 2016:168-179

89. Kommentar till Harald Baldersheim og Øyvind Østerrud (red), Det norske demokratiet i det 21. århundre i Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift Nr 4 2015

88. Debate on Azar Gat’s Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism in Nations and Nationalism Vol 21 Nr 3 2015: 8-11.

87. Review of Rolf Hobson, “Europeisk politisk historie, 1750-1950.” Oslo: Cappelen Damm in Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo) Nr 2 2015: 523-529.

86. “Två revolutioner som förändrade världen och tiden. Den amerikanska oavhängighetsförklaringen 1776 och den franska revolutionen 1789” i Bernadotte-Musei Vänner (utg), Norges Grundlov 1814 – Sverige 200 år i fred. Historiskt seminarium den 5 maj 2014. Bernadottebiblioteket, Kungl Slottet, Stockholm. Stockholm:  Bernadotte-Musei Vänner.

85. “A second great transformation in Europe.The rise and imminent fall of the technocrats” in Juncture Vol 21 Issue 4 2015.

84. “Conceptual History and Time” in Claudia Wiesner, Evgeny Roshchin and Marie-Christine Boilard (eds), Debate with Kari Palonen. Concepts, Politics, Histories. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2015.

83. Review of Eirik Holmøyvik (red), Tolkinger av Grunnlova. Om forfatningsutviklinga 1814-2014. Oslo: Pax 2013 in Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo) Nr 4 2014.

82. Review of Johan Stenfeldt, “Dystopiernas seger. Totalitarism som orienteringspunkt i efterkrigstidens svenska idédebatt.” Agebrings bokförlag 2013 in Scandia  Vol 80 Nr 1 2014.

81. “En utopi i upplösning” (with Rolf Gustavsson), in Axess Nr 4 2014.

80. “The Academic and the Political: A Problematic Relationship” in Bildungsgeschichte. International Journal for the Historiography of Education, Vol 4, Nr 1 2014.

79. “Europe 1815-1914. A Report from a Research project” in Aleksei Salomatin (ed), State, Political and Legal Problems of Contemporary Europe. Penza, SU: Penza State University Press 2013 pp 15-25.

78. “Att revidera bilden av det förflutna” in Scandia Vol 79 Nr 2 2013.72. “A social Europe must be a political  Europe” in Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net)  8 May 2013).

77. Review of Aryo Makko, “Sweden, Europe and the  Cold War. A Reappraisal” Journal of Cold War Studies 14:2 Spring  2012:68-97 in H-Diplo Article Reviews No 375 20 Nov 2012 (URL:  https://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/AR375.pdf) .

76. Review of May-Brith Ohman Nielsen, Norvegr. Norges historie. Bind III: 1840-1914 og bind IV: Etter 1914. Oslo: Aschehoug  2011, 247 + 304 pp in Historisk Tidsskrift (Norway) Vol 91 Nr 4 2012.

75. “Konstitution och frihet: två mångtydiga begrepp  i 1800-talets Europa med fortfarande relevans”. Key note at the researcher  meeting organised by the Norwegian Research Council at Eidsvoll 23 April  2012. 
www.forskningsradet.no/grunnlov.

74. “Ibsen,  Norden och Europa”. Review of Narve Fulsås (ed), Henrik Ibsens skrifter.  Band 12-15. Aschehoug, Oslo 2005-2010 in Finsk Historisk Tidskrift Nr 3 2011.

73. Review  of Frank Biess and Robert G Moeller (Hrsg), Histories of the Aftermath. The  Legacies of the Second World War in Europe. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books  2010 in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (online)  51, 2011 (URL  https://www.fes.de/cgibin/afs.cgi?id=81261>[1.7.2011].

72. “Historical Understanding Key to Future Success” in URL www.publicservice.com 11 March 2011

71. “Migrationsforskning i Malmö: Tio års  landvinningar och framtida möjligheter. En utvärdering av gästprofessuren till  Willy Brandts minne vid Malmö högskola”. Malmö: Malmö stad 2010

70. “Historiska jubileer är politiska  manifestationer” in: Historisk Tidskrift för Finland Nr 1 2010

69. Review  of Margrit Pernau, “Bürger mit Turban. Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert.”  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008 in: Redescriptions Vol 13 2009

68. “Förord” in. Peter Haldén (ed.), 1648. Den westfaliska freden. Arv,  kontext och konsekvenser. Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2009.

67. “En samhällsteori med en historisk dimension” in: Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning Nr 2 2009, pp 217-229.

66. Review of Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande, Cosmopolitan Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007 in: Insight Turkey, Vol. 11, No.2, 2009, p. 149.

65. Preface in: Stefan Donecker and Imbi Sooman (eds), The ‘Baltic Frontier’ Revisited. Power Structures and Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Baltic Sea Region. Proceedings of the International Symposium in Florence, February 29th and March 1st, 2008. Vienna 2009.

64. Review of Richard Mole (ed), “Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics”. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave 2007 in Nations and Nationalism Vol 14 Part 3 July 2008.

63. Review of Hartmut Kaelble, “Sozialgeschichte Europas”. München: Beck 2007 in: H-Soz-u-Kult/Rezensionen/Bücher 25.07.2008.

62. Review of Fogu, Claudio, Wulf Kantsteiner and Richard Ned Lebow (eds.), “The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe”. Durham: Duke U P 2006 in: The German Quarterly Spring Issue 2008.

61. Review of Tony Judt, “Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945” in H-Soz-Kult April 2007

60. “Bakom festtalen djupnar krisen” in: Svenska Dagbladet 22 March 2007.             

59. Review of Hartmut Kaelble and Günther Schmid (Hg), “Das europäische Sozialmodell: auf dem Weg zum transnationalen Sozialstaat”. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Jahrbuch 2004 in: Historisk Tidskrift Nr 1 2007.

58. Review of Luca Dotti, “L’utopia eugenetica del welfare state svedese (1934-1975): il programma socialdemocratico di sterilizzazione, aborto e castrazione”. Rubbettino: Soneria Mannelli 2004 in: Historisk Tidskrift Nr 1 2007.

57. Review of Ståle Dyrvik, Året 1814. Oslo: “Det Norske Samlaget 2005” in: Scandinavian Journal of History Vol 31 No 3 Sept 2006.

56. “EU — ett skydd mot populismen” in: Svenska Dagbladet 19 June 2006.

55. “Christallization of Civilizations: a Problematic Conceptual Couple” in: Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik (ISSN 1610-3996) Jg 17 Heft 1 2006.

54. “Orienteringsvetenskap i ett tolkande samhälle” in: Tvärvetenskap (Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm) Nr 4 2005.

53. Review of Reinhart Koselleck, “Futures Past. On the Semantic of Historical Time” (translated and with an introduction by Keith Tribe). New York: Columbia University Press, 2004 and Kari Palonen, “Die Entzauberung der Begriffe. Das Umschreiben der politischen Begriffe bei Quentin Skinner und Reinhart Koselleck”. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2004 in European Journal of Social Theory 8 (4) 2005.

52. “Union och demokrati. Svar till Kåre Lunden” in: Klassekampen (Oslo) 18-19 June and 5 July 2005.

51. Review Gerald Stourzh (Hg) unter Mitarbeit von Barbara Haider/Ulrike Harmat, “Annäherungen an eine europäische Geschichtsschreibung”. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2002 in: Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit Jahrgang 5 2005 Heft 1.

50. Review of Mabel Berezin and Martin Schain (eds.), “Europe without Borders: Remapping Territory, Citizenship, and Identity in a Transnational Age” in Contemporary Sociology 34, 3 2005.

49. “De Förenade rikena 1814-1905. En tillbakablick på unionen Sverige-Norge” in: Tvärsnitt (Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm) Nr 1, 2005 pp 20-23.

48. “Union and Democracy: Viewpoints on the United kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, 1814-1905”, in The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Annual Report 2004. Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2005 pp 115-121. Also in Swedish as “Union och demokrati. Perspektiv på De Förenade rikena Sverige och Norge 1814-1905” i: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Årsberättelse 2004. Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2005 pp 115-121.

47. Review ofJenny Andersson, “Mellan tillväxt och trygghet”. Diss. Uppsala University in: Historisk Tidskrift No 2 2005.

46. Review of Birgitta Eimer, “Eine Königin macht Politik. Sophie zu Nassau 1836-1913”. Nordbuch, Greifswald 2003. Review in: Historisk Tidskrift Nr 1 2005.

45. Speech at the opening of the Network for European Studies at Helsinki University, download here.

44. “SAP saknar svar på värdekrisen” in: Svenska Dagbladet 7 March 2004.

43. “Det förlorade initiativet” in: Svenska Dagbladet 5 October 2003.

42. Review of Roger Johansson, “Historievetenskapen och minnet av det förflutna” i Historisk Tidskrift Nr 4 2003.

41. “Historievetenskapen och minnet av det förflutna”, in: Historisk Tidskrift 4/2003, pp 630-36 (review of Roger Johansson, Kampen om historien. Ådalen 1931, Hjalmarsson och Högberg, Stockholm 2001.)

40. Review of Peter A Swenson, “Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labour Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden” in: Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol. 24 (3), 2003, pp 479-480.

39. Review of David P Calleo, “Rethinking Europe’s Future” in Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol. 24 (1), 2003 pp 129-131.

38. “Unionsupplösningen 1905 och dess bakgrund” in: Krig mellom broderfolkene? Rapport from Bernadotteseminaret 20-21 April 2002 at Voksenåsen, Voksenåsen, Oslo 2002.

37. “Universitetens värdekris blir synlig i Lund” in: Svenska Dagbladet 7 May 2002.

36. Review of Giuliana Gemelli (ed.), “American Foundations and Large-Scale Research: Construction and Transfer of Knowledge”, in: Annale SISSCO Il mestiere di storico 2002.

35. Review of Cris Shore, “Building Europe. The Cultural Politics of European Integration”, in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Vol. 2, No 4, November 2002.

34. “In the midst of history: Towards an active Europe” at openDemocracy.net.33. 1 Feb 2002

33. Review of Reinhart Koselleck (2000), “Zeitschichten. Studien zur Historik mit einem Beitrag von Hans-Georg Gadamer”. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp in: European Journal of Social Theory 2001 4 (4).

32.”Representation, Nation and Time” Review of Jussi Kurunmäki (2000), Representation, Nation and Time: the Political Rhetoric of the 1866 Parliamentary Reform in Sweden in Finnish Yearbook of Political Thought 2001 pp 207-210.

31.  “Continuity Rather Than Revolution. A Rejoinder” in Security  Dialogue Vol 31 Nr 4 2000 pp 443-448.

30. Review of Carl Lankowski (ed.), “Breakdown, Breakup. Breakthrough: Germany’s Difficult Passage to Modernity” in Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol. 21 (4), 2000.

29. “Die Norderweiterung der EU: Hintergrund und Zukunftsperspektive’, in: Standpunkt Nr. 5, May/June 1995. Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit und Frauen, Berlin.

28. Review of “Etterkrigshistorisk register: Fagbvevegelsen som etterkrigshistorisk forskningsfelt. Av Terje Halvorsen, Band 13”, in: Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning No 3, 1994.

27. Review of Kersti Ullenhag (ed), “Hundred Flowers Bloom. Essays in honour of Bo Gustafsson” in Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Bd 80Heft X 1993

26. Review of Susan Houseman, “Industrial Restructuring with Job Security. The Case of European Steel” in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Arbetslivscentrum Vol. 14, No 1, 1993.

25. Review of Rolf Torstendahl, “Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880-1985”, in: Business History Review, Harvard Autumn Vol. 66, 1992.

24. “Dem Kapital hinterher”, in: EGmagazin (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden) Februar 1-2 1992 perspektiv. Nyhetsbrev från LRFs Internationella enhet Nr. 9, 15 April, 1992.

23. Review of “Trond Nordby, Det moderne gjennombruddet i bondesamfunnet, Norge 1870-1920”, in: Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning No. 2, 1992.

22. Review of Sven Kilander, “Den nya staten och den gamla” i HistoriskTidskrift Nr 3 1992

21. Review of Åke Abrahamsson, “Stockholms tidiga arbetarrörelse” i Historisk Tidskrift Nr 3 1992.

20. “Perspektiven der Arbeiterkulturforschung in Schweden” in: Wolfgang Kaschuba, Gottfried Korff, Bernd Jürgen Warneken (Hg.), Arbeiterkultur seit 1945. Ende oder Veränderung? 5. Tagung der Kommission Arbeiterkultur in der deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde vom 30. April bis 4. Mai 1989 in Tübingen. Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde, Tübingen 1991.

19. Review of Allan Pred, Lost Words and Lost Worlds, in: Social History Vol. 16 Nr. 3 October 1991.

18. “Sverige och EG – en trestegsraket”, in Handelskammartidningen (Stockholm) Nr. 6 30 August 1991.

17. “Schweden, Europa und die EG”, in Nordeuropaforum Nr. 1, June 1991.

16. “Samhälls- och vardagshistoria: ett närmande”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 2, 1991.

15. Review of Peter Gundelach, “Sociale bevaegelser og samfundsaendringer” in: Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 14, 1989.

14. Review of Gerhard A. Ritter, “Der Sozialstaat” in: Historisk Tidskrift N. 4, 1989.

13. Review of Anders A Johansson, “Tillväxt och klassamarbete” i Arbetarhistoria Nr 51/3 1989

12. “Historia som samhällsvetenskap” i Historisk Tidskrift Nr 2 1989

11. Review of Ove Pettersson, “Vägar och byråkrati”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No. 2, 1989.

10. Review of Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, “Das Mandat des Intellektuellen. Karl Kautsky und die Sozialdemokratie”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 1 1989.

9. “Nyare teoribildning kring staten. Tendenser och luckor’, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 3 1988.

8. “Historia som samhällsvetenskap”, in: Forskning om utbildning No 3, 1988.

7. “Arbetarrörelse med förhinder”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 1 1988, 5 pp.

6. “Facklig makt och Popper”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 4, 1987, 6 pp.

5. “Socialdemokratin och maktövertagandet”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 2, 1987, 6 pp.

4. “Japanska och västtyska under och kriser”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No 4, 1985, 4 pp.

3. “Ekonomins och politikens roll för arbetarradikalismen. Ett genmäle” in: Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia No 29-30, 1984, 5 pp.

2. “Recent Development in Swedish Social History of the Period since 1800”, in Social History Vol. 9 No 1, 1984, 8 pp.

1. “Klios nya ängel och Ikaros”, in: Historisk Tidskrift No. 4, 1983, 4 pp.

Publications

  • Monographs
  • Anthologies
Creating Community and Ordering the World
A European Memory
A European Memory?
European Solidarities
European Solidarities
Reflections on Europe
Reflections on Europe
The Economy as a Polity
The Economy As a Polity
A European Social Citizenship
A European Social Citizenship?
Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member States
States and Citizens History Theory Prospects
States and Citizens
Homelands
Homelands
The Meaning of Europe
The Meaning of Europe
From the Werner Plan to the EMU
From the Werner Plan to the EMU
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community
Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community
AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT European Discources on Work and Flexibility
After Full Employment
Enlightenment and Genocide Contradictions of Modernity
Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity
Department of History and Civilization Nationalism and Modernity EUI Working Papers
Nationalism and Modernity
The Postmodern Challenge Perspectives East and West
The Postmodern Challenge
The Cultural Construction of Norden
The Cultural Construction of Norden
Comparativ Wohnungsbau im Internationalen Vergleich Heft 3-1996
Wohnungsbau im internationalen Vergleich
Language and the Construction of Class Identities
Language and the Construction of Class Identities
Idylle oder Aufbruch
Idylle oder Aufbruch?
Democratisation in Scandinavia in Comparison

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