title: A History of Finland, Revised Edition
author:  Eino Jutikkala 
description: PARTIAL list of keywords: Academic Karelia Society; Frederik Adolphus; Alexander I; Alexander II; Alexander III; Alfred the Great; Bishp of Turku; Empress Catherine; Finnish Literary Society; Folkungs; Adolf Hitler; Jaeger Movement; January Committee; Peace reaty of Knared; Napoleon; etc, etc. PARTIAL list of Contents: The Settlement of Finland Begins; Finland is Drawn into the Wetern Cultural Sphere; Finland in the Scandinavian Union; From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era; Finland as Part of a Great Power; Sweden or Russia?; Finland Becomes an Autonomous State; National Awakening in the Shelter of Autonomy; Autonomy Lost and Independence Gained; and Independent Finland.
zlib_text: F. E. SILLANPÄÄ
  
  
  People in the Summer Night
  
  
  Translated from the Finnish by Alan Blair
  
  
  
  
  
  Madison, Milwaukee, and London,  
  1966
  
  
  Published by
  
  
  the University of Wisconsin Press
  
  
  Madison, Milwaukee, and London
  
  
  U.S.A.: Box 1379, Madison, Wisconsin 53701
  
  
  U.K.: 26-28 Hallam Street, London, W.1
  
  
  English translation
  
  
  copyright © 1966 by the Regents of
  
  
  the University of Wisconsin
  
  
  Originally published by
  
  
  Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
  
  
  Helsinki, Finland
  
  
  Copyright © 1934 by
  
  
  Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
  
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  by the George Banta Company, Inc.,
  
  
  Menasha, Wisconsin
  
  
  Library of Congress Catalog
  
  
  Card Number 66-13807
  
  
  Introduction
  
  
  In 1888, when Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born, the industrialization of Finland
  had scarcely begun; and thirty years ago, when People in the Summer Night was
  written, Finland was still largely an agrarian country. Even today not more
  than forty per cent of the Finns live in cities or towns, and as a matter of
  fact