Introduction – Boom, Bust and Recovery
PART I: RISE AND SHINE
1. Birth of a Nation – a Postcolonical Project
2. Coming of Age – Economic History
3. The Independent State – Foreign Relations
PART II: BOOM AND BUST
4. The Nordic Tiger – Imagined Economic Miracle
5. Hot Air – Living on the Edge
6. The Crash – Collapse of the Cross Border Banks
PART III: REVOLUTION AND RECOVERY
7. Pots-and-Pans Revolution – and Defiance Abroad
8. Rising from the Ruins – Fragile Economic Recovery
9. Reconstituting Iceland – and the New Critical Order
Conclusion and Final Remarks