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Extreme North : a cultural history / Bernd Brunner ; translated by Jefferson Chase

Bernd Brunner (Verfasser)
Jefferson S. Chase (Übersetzer)

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company
[2022]

246 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

The Northern unicorn -- Beyond the borders of the known world -- Left of sunrise -- Onerous journeys to lands of the midnight sun -- Northern wonderland -- Tired of the South: the new love affair with the North -- Discovering the Norse myths -- A confidence man and a blind bard -- The scent of the arctic -- When East Was North -- Climate makes the man -- Shot through with gods and demons -- "To the North its end shall be cast" -- The dubious cradle of humanity -- The tactics of indigenous peoples -- A distant Atlantic island -- Victorians and Vikings -- Arctic mania and the discovery of America -- Dramatic cliffs and kaleidoscopic waves -- "For God's sake, don't look down!" -- The Farthest North -- The fin de siècle: great expanses and wind! -- Developing Nordic proclivities further -- The abyss of "racial science" -- "Aryan" brothers in the South -- Scandinavia, anti-Fascist bulwark -- Before the Second World War -- The eternal longing for the cold apocalypse -- The Bible is right after all -- The true North -- Last diamonds -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

978-0-393-88100-4

Englisch

Deutsch

USA

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Geografie, Reisen

Deutschland, Fernweh, Norden, Geschichte
Deutschland, Skandinavienbild, Geschichte
Nordeuropa, Reise, Geschichte

306.091813

Die Erfindung des Nordens

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index

1252804377