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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. Finding a Footing: Th e North before 1700; The Mediterranean Looking North; Destruction cometh out of the north
- The Dream of the Pacific; The Reformation: The Great Divide; Arctic Attractions; Anglo-Scandinavian Connections; Wars and Whales; The Emergence of a Northern Identity; Atlantis Discovered; 2. Preparing for Take-Off : The Early Eighteenth Century; Northern Politics and Peter the Great; The Arctic Race Continues; Greenland and Spitsbergen; The Nature of the North and Northern Nature.
- The Edge of Civilisation: LaplandScience, Culture and Religion; Anglo-Saxon Revival; The Past Is the Future; 3. The Great Watershed: 1750-1790; The Problem of Progress; A Taste of Flora and the Country Green
- Discovering Britain's North; The Grand Tour and the North; Arctic Adventures; Whaling; The Southern North; Reappropriating the Past; Ossian and Oral Traditions; The Ossian Effect; The Sagas and Contemporary Art; 4. Fastening the Grip: 1790-1830; The French Revolution; Icy Ruins; Arctic Attack; 1818; With Hammer and Tongs; The Antarctic and the Whaling Industry; The Popular Arctic.
- Travellers Turning NorthMadame de Staël; Discovering Scandinavia; Britain's Past Is Scotland's Past; Germany: Vikings, Volk and Fairy Tales; Scandinavia: Old Dreams, New Beginnings; 5. The Northern Heyday: 1830-1880; Tipping the Scales; The Northwest Passage, at Last?; For the Pole; The Russian Route; Whales and Seals and the Southern Seas; Chilling Science; Franklin In Memoriam; Narratives of the North; Music and Art on Ice; Fashionable Scandinavia; Politicising the Past; Academia Heroica; Arty Vikings; 6. The Closing Circle: 1880-1920; The Turn of the Century; The Final Push in the Arctic.
- The Last Polar Battle: the South PoleNatural Resources; Science, Technology andthe Problem of Progress Revisited; Utopia and Dystopia: Northern Modernism; The Case of Germany; Northern Travel; Ancient Nordicism: Constructive or Destructive?; Robert Ames Bennet's Polar Romance; Postscript; Bibliography; Index; Note on the Author.