TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fjågesund,Peter
TI  - The Dream of the North: a Cultural History to 1920
T2  - Studia Imagologica
SN  - 9789401210829
AV  - CB7 .F53 2014
U1  - 900 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Editions Rodopi
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - North America
KW  - Europe, Northern
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Finding a Footing: The North before 1700 -- Preparing for Take-Off : The Early Eighteenth Century -- The Great Watershed: 1750-1790 -- Fastening the Grip: 1790-1830 -- The Northern Heyday: 1830-1880 -- The Closing Circle: 1880-1920 -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index -- Note on the Author; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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 of ancient Nordic and Celtic culture. Finally, the book offers an indispensable historical background to current events in the Far North, where the past and the future meet in a complex web of dramatic environmental concerns, the exploitation of natural resources, and the strategies of politics and commerce
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401210829
ER  -