Scandinavians

Download or read book Scandinavians written by Robert Ferguson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging, layered look into a culture complex enough both to produce stylish rain gear and to embrace the foul weather that necessitates it.” —The New York Times Book Review We fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and healthy outdoor lifestyle; we devour their crime fiction. Even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life’s vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider’s view of Scandinavia, and how accurate is our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Scandinavians follows a chronological progression across the Northern centuries: the Vendel era of Swedish prehistory; the age of the Vikings; the Christian conversions of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland; the unified Scandinavian state of the late Middle Ages; the sea-change of the Reformation; the kingdom of Denmark-Norway; King Gustav Adolphus and the age of Sweden’s greatness; the cultural golden age of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Munch; the impact of the Second World War; Scandinavia’s postwar social democratic nirvana; and the terror attack of Anders Behring Breivik. Scandinavians is also a personal investigation, with award-winning author Robert Ferguson as the ideal companion as he explores not only the region’s society, politics, culture, and temperament, but also 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. “A delightful history in which the author truly captures ‘the soul of the North.’ ”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States written by Olof Nickolaus Nelson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scandinavia of the Scandinavians written by Henry Goddard Leach and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scandinavians on the Pacific, Puget Sound written by Thomas Ostenson Stine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandinavians on the Pacific, Puget Sound by Thomas Ostenson Stine is an informational nonfiction text about groups of Scandinavians living in northwestern Washington. Contents: "Introduction. Chapter I. The Pacific Coast. Chapter II. The First Scandinavian Pioneers. Chapter III. Scandinavians in Seattle. Chapter IV. Societies—Press—Prominent Citizens—Churches. Chapter V. Scandinavians in Ballard. Chapter VI. Scandinavians in Tacoma. Chapter VII. Societies—Press—Prominent Citizens—Churches. Chapter VIII."

Download or read book Scandinavians who Have Contributed to the Knowledge of the Flora of North America written by Per Axel Rydberg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Scandinavian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American-Scandinavian Review written by Henry Goddard Leach and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1926) is special issue devoted to John Ericsson.