Nordic Border Crossings: Coastal Communities and Connected Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Norway, Scotland, and Canada

• Published in: Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
• Main Author: Silke Reeploeg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: University of Alberta Library 2016
• Subjects: History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia; DL1-1180; Language and Literature; P; Canada; Norway; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan118; https://doaj.org/article/9b2de22ba6c243f89fe171814efdca39

ABSTRACT: Coastal cultures form a complex area of research, offering new opportunities to investigate and understand the history of cultural encounters and transnational “regions of culture” across the Northern peripheries. This article investigates the connected cultures of coastal communities of Norway, Scotland, and Canada after 1700. A shared, diverse, but similarly sea-focused cultural landscape exists across the North that informs the way in which regional cultural identities are formed and maintained. Using new methodologies of cultural transfer such as entangled histories or histoire croisée, this article pays particular attention to the creation of transient cross-cultural networks and regions stimulated by trade and related contacts across the North Sea and the North Atlantic.