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A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC). -- Scandinavians is also a personal investigation, with award-winning author Robert Ferguson as the ideal companion as he explores wide-ranging topics such as the power and mystique of Scandinavian women, from the Valkyries to the Vikings; from Nora and Hedda to Garbo and Bergman. This digressive technique is familiar from the writings of W.G. Sebald, and in Ferguson's hands it is deployed with particular felicity, accessibility, and deftness, richly illuminating our understanding of modern Scandinavia, its society, politics, culture, and temperament.

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Overlook Press
Language
English
Pages
455

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Social conditions, Politics and government, History, Scandinavia, history, Scandinavians, New York Times reviewed, Scandinavia -- History, Scandinavia -- Social conditions, Scandinavia -- Politics and government
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Scandinavia

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Table of Contents

Prelude. A season in Hell: Copenhagen 1969
Stones
The conversion of the Icelanders
Amleth, Luther and the last priest: the Reformation in Scandinavia
The King of the past: Frederik VII of Denmark
The Vasa ship: Sweden's age of greatness
Abductions: the war between the Danes and Algerians
The short sweet rule of Johann Friedrich Struensee
Taking God at His word: Søren Kierkegaard and Olav Fiskvik
The loneliness of the long-distance explorer
Interlude: Ibsen's Ghosts
The emigrants
World War II: the Scandinavian experience
The power of Scandinavian women
Dagny Juel and the invention of melancholy
Malexander
Oslo 2016.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-443) and index.

Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
914.8
Library of Congress
DL5 .F47 2017

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xxiii, 455 pages
Number of pages
455

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OL27240276M
Internet Archive
scandinaviansins0000ferg_y4b4
ISBN 10
1468314823
ISBN 13
9781468314823
OCLC/WorldCat
990188535

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