Britain and Denmark: Political Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Since 1815, Denmark and Britain have lived in peace with each other. From the last half of the 19th century, massive British imports of Danish agricultural products gave Britain a central role in the Danish economy, and in the 20th century British efforts in the two world wars became of crucial importance to Denmark's position in relation to Germany and, later, the Soviet Union. In the same period, the emergence of English as the first foreign language in Denmark facilitated the increasingly closer human and cultural contacts between the two countries. Britain and Denmark, written by Danish and British historians, provides a comprehensive picture of the roles that these two neighboring countries have played in the lives of each other during the last two centuries. The book covers contacts relating to trade, security policies and social and political theory, but also touches on mutual influences within the areas of literature, music and design.