Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Scandinavian Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Luminous Modernism
Author: Patricia G. Berman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971949379
Category : Modernism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Patricia G. Berman, coordinating curator and catalogue editor."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971949379
Category : Modernism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Patricia G. Berman, coordinating curator and catalogue editor."
The Viking Heart
Author: Arthur Herman
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328595900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328595900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America
Scandinavians in Chicago
Author: Erika K. Jackson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205086X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the "race" proclaimed by the scientific racism of the era as the very embodiment of white superiority. As such, Scandinavians from the beginning enjoyed racial privilege and the success it brought without the prejudice, nativism, and stereotyping endured by other immigrant groups. Erika K. Jackson examines how native-born Chicagoans used ideological and gendered concepts of Nordic whiteness and Scandinavian ethnicity to construct social hegemony. Placing the Scandinavian-American experience within the context of historical whiteness, Jackson delves into the processes that created the Nordic ideal. She also details how the city's Scandinavian immigrants repeated and mirrored the racial and ethnic perceptions disseminated by American media. An insightful look at the immigrant experience in reverse, Scandinavians in Chicago bridges a gap in our understanding of how whites constructed racial identity in America.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205086X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the "race" proclaimed by the scientific racism of the era as the very embodiment of white superiority. As such, Scandinavians from the beginning enjoyed racial privilege and the success it brought without the prejudice, nativism, and stereotyping endured by other immigrant groups. Erika K. Jackson examines how native-born Chicagoans used ideological and gendered concepts of Nordic whiteness and Scandinavian ethnicity to construct social hegemony. Placing the Scandinavian-American experience within the context of historical whiteness, Jackson delves into the processes that created the Nordic ideal. She also details how the city's Scandinavian immigrants repeated and mirrored the racial and ethnic perceptions disseminated by American media. An insightful look at the immigrant experience in reverse, Scandinavians in Chicago bridges a gap in our understanding of how whites constructed racial identity in America.
Scandinavia House, the Nordic Center in America
Author:
Publisher: Polshek Partnership LLP
ISBN: 0977250296
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher: Polshek Partnership LLP
ISBN: 0977250296
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
After the Sun
Author: Jonas Eika
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593329120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —New York Times Book Review “Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.” —Wall Street Journal From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world. Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine. After the Sun opens portals to our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalized world that’s both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional. Infused with an irrepressible urgency, Eika’s fiction seems to have conjured these far-flung characters and their encounters in a single breath. Juxtaposing startling beauty with grotesquery, balancing the hyperrealistic with the fantastical—“as though the worlds he describes are being viewed through an ultraviolet filter,” in one Danish reviewer's words—he has invented new modes of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593329120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —New York Times Book Review “Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.” —Wall Street Journal From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world. Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine. After the Sun opens portals to our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalized world that’s both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional. Infused with an irrepressible urgency, Eika’s fiction seems to have conjured these far-flung characters and their encounters in a single breath. Juxtaposing startling beauty with grotesquery, balancing the hyperrealistic with the fantastical—“as though the worlds he describes are being viewed through an ultraviolet filter,” in one Danish reviewer's words—he has invented new modes of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.
Story of Gösta Berling
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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River Kings
Author: Cat Jarman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
The Voyages of the Norsemen to America
Author: William Hovgaard
Publisher: New York : the American-Scandinavian Foundation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: New York : the American-Scandinavian Foundation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Annual Report - American Scandinavian Foundation
Author: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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