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100 1  Brunner, Bernd,|d1964-|eauthor. 
240 10 Erfindung des Nordens.|lEnglish 
245 10 Extreme North :|ba cultural history /|cBernd Brunner ; 
       translated by Jefferson Chase. 
263    2202 
264  1 New York :|bW. W. Norton & Company,|c[2022] 
300    246 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and 
       index. 
505 0  The Northern unicorn -- Beyond the borders of the known 
       world -- Left of sunrise -- Onerous journeys to lands of 
       the midnight sun -- Northern wonderland -- Tired of the 
       South: the new love affair with the North -- Discovering 
       the Norse myths -- A confidence man and a blind bard -- 
       The scent of the arctic -- When East Was North -- Climate 
       makes the man -- Shot through with gods and demons -- "To 
       the North its end shall be cast" -- The dubious cradle of 
       humanity -- The tactics of indigenous peoples -- A distant
       Atlantic island -- Victorians and Vikings -- Arctic mania 
       and the discovery of America -- Dramatic cliffs and 
       kaleidoscopic waves -- "For God's sake, don't look down!" 
       -- The Farthest North -- The fin de siècle: great expanses
       and wind! -- Developing Nordic proclivities further -- The
       abyss of "racial science" -- "Aryan" brothers in the South
       -- Scandinavia, anti-Fascist bulwark -- Before the Second 
       World War -- The eternal longing for the cold apocalypse -
       - The Bible is right after all -- The true North -- Last 
       diamonds -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- 
       Index. 
520    "Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their 
       fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, 
       whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of 
       marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric 
       human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of 
       adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that 
       led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and
       imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a 
       perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that 
       inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, Extreme North 
       explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian 
       fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed 
       with Nordic whiteness. In concise but thoroughly 
       researched chapters, Brunner highlights the cultural and 
       political fictions at play from the first "discoveries" of
       northern landscapes and stories, to the eugenicist 
       elevation of the "Nordic" phenotype (which in turn 
       influenced America's limits on immigration), to the 
       idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-
       racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi 
       philosophies that tied the "Aryan race" to the upper 
       latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific 
       fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world 
       over. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as 
       discovered. Full of glittering details embedded in vivid 
       storytelling, Extreme North is a fascinating romp through 
       both actual encounters and popular imaginings, and a 
       disturbing reminder of the power of fantasy to shape the 
       world we live in"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 National characteristics, Scandinavian. 
650  0 Literature and history|zScandinavia. 
650  0 Literature and society|zScandinavia|xHistory. 
650  7 Civilization.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00862898 
650  7 Literature and history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01000077 
650  7 Literature and society.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01000096 
650  7 National characteristics, Scandinavian.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01033510 
651  0 Scandinavia|xCivilization. 
651  7 Scandinavia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01242804 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
700 1  Chase, Jefferson S.,|etranslator. 
776 08 |iebook version :|z9780393881011 
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