Abstract It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner...
Edward Elgar July 2016. Co-authored with Lars Magnusson Abstract The book examines the three historical master tales of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, and questions their validity and relevance in today’s moment of global disorientation which...
Abstract Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace....
The European Shadow of the Past and Future of the Present Martti Koskenniemi and Bo Stråth (eds), Creating Community and Ordering the World: The European Shadow of the Past and Future of the Present. Report from the Research Project "Europe between Restoration...
There is a lack of a more realistic history that rejects teleological understandings of Europe as a self-propelling project on a steady march towards a predetermined goal. A lack of a history that emphasises the fragility of European peace and progress, so evident today, This project was initiated to respond to this experienced lack.
Here are listed the seminars and workshops from the autumn of 2007 to the end of 2008 at the Helsinki University that prepared the two projects Europe 1815-1914: Creating Community and Ordering the World and Conceptual History and Global Translations. The seminars and the projects dealt with fact-finding missions into the past with normative questions about the future in the back of the mind, questions about a better world, whatever that means. Here is also the last conclusing seminar of the Europe 1815-1914 project in 2013.
(Sweden's History 1830-1920). Stockholm: Norstedts 2012. 712 pp Abstract The focus of the book is on the emergence of the modern mass society under intensestruggles about how to shape the future. The period between 1830 and 1920 was the timebetween two major...
The project Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations that started in 2008 was a joint venture between Bo Stråth, Helsinki Uniersity and Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Århus University. Here texts and photos from the project's conferences until 2012 as well as its method, theory, and organization.
Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance Abstract An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand whythe grand design of a United Europe – with a common foreign policy and market yet enoughdiversity to allow for...
The hypocricy of democracy-through-market. London: Routledge 2010. Co-authored with Hagen Schulz-Forberg Abstract The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven Europeaneconomy and democracy and continues to be seen as a new step...
