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The Dream of the North : a Cultural History to 1920.
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North's rise...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studia imagologica ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North's rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (569 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401210829 9401210829 9042038373 9789042038370 |