The book The History of Finland

- helps readers to understand the particular facts of Finland's history within global developments.
- elaborates on Finland's relationships to Sweden and Russia.
- investigates the impact of the cellular phone on Finnish society and across the world.
- provides a review of the archaeological data from Finland's first settlement shortly after the Ice Age through the Iron Age.
- examines the rise of Helsinki, the establishment of the Finnish language, the Finnish sauna, among other issues.
- includes a timeline of historical events, maps, and a bibliographical essay for further reading.
- describes 45 of the 100 Finns voted by the public as the most notable Finns in Finnish history.

The Author Jason Lavery

- is one of America's leading scholars in Finnish studies with a doctoral degree in history from Yale University.
- has held a two-week long public lecture series in Helsinki since 1992.
- has conducted archival research for more than 20 years using six foreign languages: Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, and Latin.
- currently serves as the vice president of the Society of Historians of Scandinavia (SHS).
- has received financial and other support from numerous American and European institutions.