Fortifications in the Wilderness : The Making of Swedish-Russian Borderlands around 1900

• Main Author: Rodell, Magnus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden 2009
• Subjects: borderlands; anthropology of borders; material culture; fortifications; the defence question; Norrland; Boden; Norway; Journal of Northern Studies
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43260

In the decades around 1900 the northern territories between Sweden-Norway and Finland-Russia were created and enforced as significant borderlands. In the article I situate the making of these borderlands in what was known as “the Defence Question.” Taking my point of departure in this heated politic...