Extreme North: A Cultural History Brunner Bernd
Extreme North: A Cultural History Brunner Bernd 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…
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Extreme North: A Cultural History Brunner Bernd
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. The Left has idealized Scandinavian social democracy. 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/Rome and the moralistic "Semitic" Bible.
Nordic phenotypes characterized eugenics, which in turn influenced America's limits on immigration.The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as discovered. The Right borrows from a long history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. A valuable contribution to intellectual history, full of vivid documentation, Extreme
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