From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: Schoolfield, George C. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

* Max Engman, ed. Abo: Abo Akademi, 1991.Pp.303.

As far as the reviewer knows, the writing of departmental (or disciplinary) histories has never been a common practice at American universities, perhaps because of the very number of institutions of higher learning, the size (and professional disparity) of their departmental faculties, or their often very shifting complements. However, such publications have become fairly common in Finland; one thinks of two other recent v...