Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize / / Oscar J. Falnes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Falnes, Oscar J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1938]; ©1938
• Year of Publication: 1938
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part One. Two Northern Luminaries in the Peace Cause: Nobel and Bjørnson --; I. Alfred Nobel: His Interest in Norway and in Peace --; II. Bjørnson’s Interest in Peace --; Part Two. The Peace Movement in Norway --; III. The Peace Movement and Other Liberal Causes --; IV. Early Efforts to Organize --; V. The Norwegian Peace Union: Earlier Period --; VI. The Peace Union: A General Survey --; Part Three. The Storting and the Peace Cause --; VII. The Swedish-Norwegian Tension (1892–95) and Later Political Developments --; VIII. The Storting Supports Various Peace Endeavors --; IX. Peace and Unionist Politics --; Part Four. The Storting’s Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute --; Χ. Implementing Nobel’s Will --; XI. Plans for a Nobel Institute --; XII. The Institute in Its Advisory Capacity --; XIII. Direct Support of the Peace Cause --; XIV. Bjørnson and the Nobel Committee --; XV. Personnel of the Committee --; XVI. Candidates and Prize Winners --; Part Five. Censure and Appraisal --; XVII. Criticism, Specific and General --; XVIII. The Background Reconsidered --; Appendices --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887335; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/faln92162
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Oscar J. Falnes.

Looks at the local background in the midst of which the Norwegian Storting's Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute administer the Nobel Peace Prize.