Scandinavians In Search of the Soul of the North
eBook - 2017
"An engaging, layered look into a culture complex enough both to produce stylish rain gear and to embrace the foul weather that necessitates it." —The New York Times Book ReviewWe fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and healthy outdoor lifestyle; we devour their crime fiction. Even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life's vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how accurate is our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Scandinavians follows a chronological progression across the Northern centuries: the Vendel era of Swedish prehistory; the age of the Vikings; the Christian conversions ...of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland; the unified Scandinavian state of the late Middle Ages; the sea-change of the Reformation; the kingdom of Denmark-Norway; King Gustav Adolphus and the age of Sweden's greatness; the cultural...
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ABRAMS, Inc.
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- English
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- Online Access
- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 13 GB |
ISBN | 9781468314830 |
Release Date | 9/1/2022 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B07MXFBGF6 |
Release Date | 9/1/2022 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 12 GB |
ISBN | 9781468314830 |
Release Date | 9/1/2022 |