Making Nordic Historiography

<ul> <li> It discusses (critically) the importance and power of methodological nationalism</li> <li> It shows how political all historiography is and may have big positive or disasterous role in society: the most dangerous product of human brains (Paul Valery)</li> <li> All history is fiction and all fiction has a role to play in understanding the past</li> <li> All history is written by individuals and therefore historiography has a “social history”</li> <li> First carefull analysis of the role of fiction in Finnish historical understanding </li></ul>