Extreme North: a cultural history
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New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
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Book
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246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
ISBN:
9780393881004, 0393881008, 9780393881004
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, Extreme North explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness. In concise but thoroughly researched chapters, Brunner highlights the cultural and political fictions at play from the first "discoveries" of northern landscapes and stories, to the eugenicist elevation of the "Nordic" phenotype (which in turn influenced America's limits on immigration), to the idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi philosophies that tied the "Aryan race" to the upper latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world over. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as discovered. Full of glittering details embedded in vivid storytelling, Extreme North is a fascinating romp through both actual encounters and popular imaginings, and a disturbing reminder of the power of fantasy to shape the world we live in"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Brunner, B., & Chase, J. S. (2022). Extreme North: a cultural history. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Brunner, Bernd, 1964- and Jefferson S. Chase. 2022. Extreme North: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Brunner, Bernd, 1964- and Jefferson S. Chase, Extreme North: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Brunner, Bernd and Jefferson S Chase. Extreme North: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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