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Reconciling Sweden's reputation for political neutrality and scientific prestige alongside its involvement in extractivist colonial projects exposes uncomfortable overlaps between these seemingly disparate ventures. In this illuminating reappraisal of the intersections between Swedish colonialism and its industrial history, Neutrality's Empire explores how Swedish actors—ranging from diplomats and business leaders to missionaries, geologists and engineers—leveraged Sweden's global standing to access valuable mineral resources across Africa and Asia. In doing so, this book presents a historical narrative which clarifies Sweden's entanglement with the forces of globalization, colonialism, and climate change.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sweden's Colonial Experience
Part I: Africa
Chapter 1. The Scramble for Africa: Sweden-Norway at the Berlin Conference 1884-85
Chapter 2. Toward a Swedish Colonial Presence in Africa
Chapter 3. Anti-Neocolonial Mining? The Politics of Swedish Extractivism in Cold War Africa, by Karl Bruno
Part II: Eurasia
Chapter 4. The Nobel Brothers and the Origins of Russian Petro-Colonialism
Chapter 5. "No Undue Ambitions": Sweden's Quest for China's Natural Resources
Chapter 6. Dirty Mining, Stainless Steel: Challenging the Great Powers in Post-Ottoman Turkey
Chapter 7. Tapping into the Soviet Union's Colonial Resource Wealth
Conclusion: Understanding Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age
Bibliography
Index
