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Hard Times
This chapter analyses the political problems in Scandinavia in the 1840s with a special focus on the Danish unitary state. The Danish-German...
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After Napoleon
This chapter recounts the upheaval brought upon the Scandinavian countries by the Napoleonic Wars, which led them all to the brink of annihilation,...
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Descriptive Statistics—Investigating Questions of Representativeness
This chapter employs descriptive statistics to explore how we might characterize a “representative” governor’s term for the two distinct periods in...
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Detecting Bias in Textual Sources
This chapter introduces a novel combination of topic modeling and sentiment analysis to summarize the study’s documents and explore questions about...
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Testing Relationships Between Categorical Variables
For the Ottoman military-administrative elite in imperial provinces, alliances were essential to garnering respect and support among Algerian...
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Getting Started
What could a book be and become with new technological advances? This question has intrigued writers for decades. Writing in 1999, then president of...
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The Scandinavian Alliance
By early 1863, the Danish-German conflict was coming close to its point of culmination. This chapter first discusses how leading and increasingly...
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The Scandinavian Question
This chapter spans the years 1859–1862, a crucial phase in the continued escalation of the Danish-German conflict as well as for Scandinavian...
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Scandinavianism in Political Practice
The end of the Crimean War was followed by a marked shift in Scandinavian foreign policy. Having incurred the wrath of Russia and secured a treaty of...
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A Foreign Country
The last chapter of the book returns to the discussion raised in its first chapter, where traditionalist Scandinavian historiography was pitted...
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From Zenith to Twilight
Usually regarded by historians as the definite end point of political Scandinavianism, Denmark’s defeat in 1864 was anything but. As this chapter...
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Texts and Intellectual Interests
This chapter is the first of three analytical discussions related to the catalogue of manuscripts presented in Chap. 2...
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Christianity’s Claims: A Kaleidoscope of Theologies
The return of Jews to Palestine presented Christianity with a complicated challenge. It raised theological issues that had appeared settled and...
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Islam: Encountering a Contemporary Challenge
Islam’s encounter with the Jewish state has been the most intense and actively hostile. The Muslim Middle East has mounted armies to wage war,...
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Conclusion
This chapter reviews the book’s main aims and contributions to the field, including the cataloguing of early manuscripts related to the Mevlevis and...
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Scribes, Patrons and Readers
This chapter examines the people involved in the production and consumption of manuscripts—those of Mevlevi texts, as well as Mevlevi individuals who...
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Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963–1976 A Covert War in Arabia
This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It...
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Israel/Palestine in World Religions Whose Promised Land?
The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about...
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The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine
Although the Great War has been alternately eulogized, glorified, and memorialized for over a century in much of western Europe, the Greater Syria...
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Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War
In the middle of the Great War, General Horace Smith-Dorrien, an Old Harrovian, published Harrow’s Epic of War, a short book which explained “how the...