Extreme North: A Cultural History Bernd Brunner Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία General Issues

People Have Perennially Projected Their Fantasies Onto The North As A Frozen No-Man’s-Land Full Of Marauding Vikings Or Unspoiled Landscape Purer More Elemental Form Life Bernd Brunner Recovers Encounters Adventurers With Its Dramatic Vistas Fierce Weather Exotic Treasures And Indigenous Peoples—And Literary Sagas That Seemed To Offer An Alternate (“Whiter” “Superior”) Cultural Origin Story Those Decadent Greece Rome Moralistic “Semitic” Bible Left Has Idealised Scandinavian Social Democracy Right Borrows From Long History Crackpot Theories Northern Origins Nordic Phenotypes Characterised Eugenics Which In Turn Influenced America’s Limits On Immigration Argues Was Much Invented Discovered Valuable Contribution Intellectual Vivid Documentation Extreme Is Enlightening Journey Through Place Real But Also Fascinating Very Disturbing Ways Imaginary Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0215 Διαστάσεις: 16X16Cm