The anthology "As before our victories on the battlefields": Media uses of inventors, entrepreneurship and industries in Sweden 1800-2000 is about how inventors, entrepreneurs and successful industries have historically been used to describe Swedish national identity. Ever since the nineteenth century, the idea that technological know-how, entrepreneurship and modernity are part of Swedishness has been formulated in many contexts and contributed to the national self-understanding. In this book, eleven researchers from different historical disciplines study - in nine empirical studies - how and where these ideas were formulated and disseminated. Some contributions deal with how engineers such as Alfred Nobel and Gustaf Dalén were described in the media. Other chapters discuss how the national self-image has become part of institutions such as schools. The overall premise of the anthology is that the ideas of technology, industry and Swedishness do not follow naturally from industrial development. Descriptions of the nation are formulated in the cultural discussion. There, the idea that inventions, entrepreneurship and industry are both Swedish specialties and future development paths has a striking persistence.