Search
£9.99
Published
3 March 2026Paperback
9781913083991Ebook
978-1-913083-98-4Press Release
Coming soon.By Mart Kuldkepp:
From Viking raids to Cold War bridge-building to today’s enviable status as the world’s happiest nations, Mart Kuldkepp masterfully charts the story of the wider Nordic region.
With Finland and Sweden now full NATO members in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this timely history explores today’s geopolitical tensions – and asks whether life is quite as hygge as it seems.
'Bracing… An admirably condensed study… popular, accessible history by a Nordic specialist’ —The Age
- ‘A superbly clear, learned and wide-ranging history of the five Nordic nations… Kuldkepp identifies how all five countries remain social democratic policy beacons, while also giving due attention to their shortcomings’
—Andrew Scott, author of Northern Lights - ‘The perfect starting point for anyone interested in Scandinavian history… Mart
Kuldkepp convincingly analyses the national developments of the Scandinavian countries and territories, from prehistoric times until today, as well as the shifting constellations and power dynamics between them, with a view to identifying what may be specifically Nordic’
—Ruth Hemstad, author of The Danish-Norwegian Divorce, 1814 - 'Compact, concise'
—Elizabeth Buchanan, author of So you want to own Greenland?
Mart Kuldkepp
MART KULDKEPP is a professor and researcher of Estonian and Nordic history at University College London, where he specialises in the political history of the Baltic and Nordic regions in the twentieth century.