02511cam a2200313 i 4500 513111292 TxAuBib 20170823120000.0 170823t20172016||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781468314823 hardcover 1468314823 hardcover (OCoLC)990188535 JAI eng rda JAI CLE FM0 SRB BTCTA BDX YDX GK8 PLS TOH IEB WIM CZA OCLCF VP@ IGA DRB TxAuBib rda Ferguson, Robert. Scandinavians : in search of the soul of the North / Robert Ferguson. New York, NY : Overlook Press, 2017. ©2016. xxiii, 455 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-443) and index. 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: S\f8ren 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. 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. 20170823. Scandinavia History. Scandinavia Social conditions. Scandinavia Politics and government.