KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southern Denmark and Royal Historiographer to H.M. the Queen of Denmark.

The third edition of Knud J. V. Jespersen’s History of Denmark pairs an insider’s perspective on Danish history and politics with a keen assessment of how Denmark’s domestic situation has been affected by external, global developments. This book will be invaluable for English speakers trying to understand how one small country in the north Atlantic has had such an outsize influence on the world.

• AcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: What is Denmark and Who are the Danes?Foreign and Security Policy: From the Gatekeeper of the Baltic to a Midget StateDomestic Policy, 1500-1848: The Era of Aristocracy and AbsolutismDomestic Policy since 1848: Democracy and the Welfare StateThe Church and Culture from Luther to the PresentEconomic Conditions: The Old Denmark, 1500-1800Economic Conditions: The New Denmark since 1800The Danes: A Tribe or a Nation?NotesSelect BibliographyA Short Chronology

KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southern Denmark and Royal Historiographer to H.M. the Queen of Denmark.

The third edition of Knud J. V. Jespersen’s History of Denmark pairs an insider’s perspective on Danish history and politics with a keen assessment of how Denmark’s domestic situation has been affected by external, global developments. This book will be invaluable for English speakers trying to understand how one small country in the north Atlantic has had such an outsize influence on the world.

• AcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: What is Denmark and Who are the Danes?Foreign and Security Policy: From the Gatekeeper of the Baltic to a Midget StateDomestic Policy, 1500-1848: The Era of Aristocracy and AbsolutismDomestic Policy since 1848: Democracy and the Welfare StateThe Church and Culture from Luther to the PresentEconomic Conditions: The Old Denmark, 1500-1800Economic Conditions: The New Denmark since 1800The Danes: A Tribe or a Nation?NotesSelect BibliographyA Short Chronology

KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southern Denmark and Royal Historiographer to H.M. the Queen of Denmark.

The third edition of Knud J. V. Jespersen’s History of Denmark pairs an insider’s perspective on Danish history and politics with a keen assessment of how Denmark’s domestic situation has been affected by external, global developments. This book will be invaluable for English speakers trying to understand how one small country in the north Atlantic has had such an outsize influence on the world.

• AcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: What is Denmark and Who are the Danes?Foreign and Security Policy: From the Gatekeeper of the Baltic to a Midget StateDomestic Policy, 1500-1848: The Era of Aristocracy and AbsolutismDomestic Policy since 1848: Democracy and the Welfare StateThe Church and Culture from Luther to the PresentEconomic Conditions: The Old Denmark, 1500-1800Economic Conditions: The New Denmark since 1800The Danes: A Tribe or a Nation?NotesSelect BibliographyA Short Chronology