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Extreme North - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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Extreme North - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as
a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the
unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. Bernd
Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its dramatic
vistas, fierce weather, exotic treasures and indigenous peoples-and
with the literary sagas that seemed to offer an alternate ("whiter"
and "superior") cultural origin story to those of decadent Greece
or Rome, and the moralistic "Semitic" Bible. The Left has idealised
Scandinavian social democracy. The Right borrows from a long
history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. Nordic phenotypes
characterised eugenics, which in turn influenced America's limits
on immigration. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as
discovered. A valuable contribution to intellectual history, full
of vivid documentation, Extreme North is an enlightening journey
through a place that is real, but also, in fascinating and very
disturbing ways, imaginary.
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