ing Modern Norway

ing Modern Norway: A History of Discourse is an intellectual history of and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national history survey that focuses on ers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "ed" the modern nation‘s material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, ing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by and to nationalise modern . Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway‘s new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of .