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 Call for Papers for the SHA conference, Leicester January 2012
 Symposium:  *Colonial Scandinavia and Scandinavian Colonialism: Archaeological aspects of a forgotten past*

 Early modern globalization with rise of a global market, colonialism, racism and birth of capitalism was an effect of political and economic endeavours of the larger colonial empires. In the accelerating colonial phase in the first half of the 17th century Denmark and Sweden entered the colonial stage and founded colonies of their own. The last tropical Scandinavian colony, Danish West Indies was sold to the United States in 1916/17 and thus ended a phase of Scandinavian overseas colonialism. Unlike many of the colonial empires Scandinavian kingdoms were establishing colonial rule not only in the New World or tropical regions of Africa and Asia. They effectively implemented ideology of subordination and policies of economic extortion in their home territories and in the North Atlantic: in the subarctic territories of Sápmi. This facet of Scandinavian history, which had lasting and severe impact on human lives and histories, is still awaiting a comprehensive and critical rev
 iew.

 This session welcomes a wide range of papers discussing the Scandinavian participation in early modern and modern colonialism and globalization as well as colonial aspects from within Scandinavia and the Nordic countries.


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 Jonas
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