Intro -- Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Charting Scandinavian Colonialism -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Scandinavian Colonialism -- Introduction -- Scandinavian Colonial Ventures: An Overview -- Colonial Ideologies -- Cultural Consequences of Colonialism -- Small Agents in a Global Arena -- References -- Chapter 2: Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections? -- Introduction -- Colonialism and Historiographical Possibilities -- The Problem with Colonialism -- Unique Friendships -- The Problem with History -- References -- Chapter 3: Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean -- Introduction -- Iceland and the Rest of the World -- The "Mulatto": The Saga of Hans Jonatan -- Conclusions -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 4: From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy -- Introduction -- Iron in the Swedish Economy -- The Ironworks -- From Gammelbo to Calabar: And Beyond -- From Leufsta to Birmingham's Steel Furnaces -- The Swedish Economy in an Atlantic Context -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 5: Heritage Tourism in Tranquebar: Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Encounter? -- Introduction -- Heritage Tourism: Colonial Nostalgia? -- From Danish Postcolonial Narratives to Postcolonial Encounters -- Negotiating (Post)colonial Relations -- Reengaging with the Colonial History of Tranquebar: Narratives of Anti-conquest -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Colonizing the North -- Chapter 6: Icelandic Archaeology and the Ambiguities of Colonialism -- Iceland, the Colonial Project and Crypto-Colonialism -- Was Iceland a Colony? -- The Archaeology of Danish Presence -- Nationalism, Colonialism and Archaeology -- Transcending the Colonial Dichotomy and Crypto-Colonialism -- References.

Web Sources -- Chapter 7: Circumventing Colonial Policies: Consumption and Family Life as Social Practices in the Early Nineteenth-Century Disko Bay -- Prologue -- Consumption and Family Life in the Contact Zones -- Colonial Greenland -- Archaeological Evidence of Colonial Consumption and Illegal Trade -- Colonial Trade Administration in Nineteenth-Century Greenland: Paradoxical Policies and Practice -- Intermarriage and Trading Women: Social and Cultural Background -- Ane Thorin: The Cooper's Wife -- The Material Cultural Encounter: Class, Ethnicity and Transculturation -- Epilogue -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 8: Colonial Encounter in Early Modern Sápmi -- Introduction -- Colonial and Saami Education -- Conversion of a Saami Youngster -- Colonial Education and Saami Resistance -- The Voice of the Colonised and the Legacy of Colonial Education -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 9: Materialities on the Move: Identity and Material Culture Among the Forest Finns in Seventeenth-Century Sweden and America -- Introduction -- Ethnicity and Material Culture -- The Forest Finns in Sweden -- The Creation of Otherness -- Tradition and Change Across the Atlantic -- Colonising the In-Between -- References -- Part III: Venturing Into the World: Scandinavian Colonies in America, Africa and Asia -- Chapter 10: Sweden in the Delaware Valley: Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden -- The Colony of New Sweden -- Settling the Colony: Challenges, Homesickness and Desertion -- Carving Familiar Spaces in Unfamiliar Territories -- Materialising the Middle Ground: Interactions Between the Settlers and Native American Groups -- Recasting Identities Beyond the Colonial Borders -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Borderland in the Middle: The Delaware Colony on the Atlantic Coast -- Introduction -- On Borderlands.

Middle Ground in the European Borderland: Sweden -- Borderland Materiality -- Sweden -- New Sweden -- Tamecongh/Aresapa, Fort Casimir, Fort Trefaldighet, New Amstel, New Castle -- References -- Chapter 12: There and Back Again: A Study of Travelling Material Culture in New and Old Sweden -- Introduction -- New Sweden: A Material Place of Colonial Contact in the Atlantic World -- (Material) Culture and Identity: The Archaeology of Printzhof, Pennsylvania Revisited -- The Imprints of Colonial Praxis: The Material Journey There -- And Back Again -- A Materiality of Colonialism: Concluding Remarks -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 13: Sweden and the Atlantic: The Dynamism of Sweden's Colonial Projects in the Eighteenth Century -- Introduction -- Sweden's Early Interest in the Atlantic World -- Sweden's Increasing Integration into Atlantic Trade -- Atlantic Trade and Political Economy in the 1780s -- The Acquisition of St. Barthélemy -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 14: The Danish Gold Coast as a Multinational and Entangled Space, c. 1700-1850 -- Introduction -- Gold Coast Port Towns: Atlantic Enclaves and Multinational Spaces -- African and Euro-African Spaces in Danish Accra -- The Shifting Identities of the Danish Africans -- Multiple Blending and Entangled Spaces in Danish West Africa -- Summary and Postscript -- Unpublished -- References -- Chapter 15: The 1733 Slave Revolt on the Island of St. John: Continuity and Change from Africa to the Americas -- Introduction -- The Scene: The Danish West Indies -- The Revolt -- An Amina Revolt -- The Nation of Amina -- A Creolised Category -- The Rebels -- Internal Oppositions in the African Caribbean Population -- Conclusion -- Unpublished Sources -- References.

Chapter 16: Networked Interaction: Archaeological Exploration of Walled and Terraced House Compounds in the Danish Colonial Port Town of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas -- Introduction -- Spatial Analysis: Gates that Include and Divide -- The Magens House -- The Bankhus -- Conclusion -- Unpublished -- References -- Part IV: Post Scriptum: Reflections -- Chapter 17: Insinuations: Framing a New Understanding of Colonialism -- Introduction: Defining the Universe -- Charting Scandinavian Colonialism -- Colonial Materialities -- Colonial Identities -- But Where Next? -- References -- Chapter 18: Colonial Encounters of the Nordic Kind -- Nordic Gangstas -- Small-Time Agents? -- We Are All Entangled, Nowadays -- Longitudinal Perspectives on Race and Place -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Index.

This book presents case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa, Asia and America as well as within Scandinavia itself.

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