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• Title:The dream of the North : a cultural history to 1920 / Peter Fjågesund.
  
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• Author/Creator:Fjågesund, Peter, 1959- author.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: CB213 .F53 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Europe, Northern--Civilization.
  
• Description:573 pages : maps (some color), illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Studia imagologica ; 23.
  
• Summary:"Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North's rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival"--Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-538) and index.
  
• ISBN:9789042038370 (hd. bd.)
  9042038373 (hd. bd.)
  9789401210829 (online)
  
• Contents:Finding a footing: the North before 1700
  Preparing for take-off: the early eighteenth century
  The great watershed: 1750-1790
  Fastening the grip: 1790-1830
  The Northern heyday: 1830-1880
  The closing circle: 1880-1920.