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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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