Extreme North
A Cultural History
People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life.Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its dramatic vistas, fierce weather, exotic treasures and indigenous peoples-and with the literary sagas that seemed to offer an alternate (whiter and superior) cultural origin story to those of decadent Greece or Rome, and the moralistic Semitic Bible. The Left has idealised Scandinavian social democracy. The Right borrows from a long history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. Nordic phenotypes…
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Weitere Autoren: Chase, Jefferson (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-88100-4
- EAN: 9780393881004
- Produktnummer: 36579815
- Verlag: Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 246 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.9 cm 424 g
- Abbildungen: 12 illustrations
- Gewicht: 424
Über den Autor
Bernd Brunner is a historian, lecturer, and author of many acclaimed books. He splits his time between Istanbul and Berlin.
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