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Record #213558:

The dream of the North: a cultural history to 1920 / Peter Fjågesund.

Title: The dream of the North: a cultural history to 1920 / Peter Fjågesund.
Author(s): Fjågesund, Peter.
Date: 2014.
Publisher: Amsterdam: Rodopi
Abstract: Presents coherent and multi-national account of ideas and perceptions that, from Renaissance onwards, fuelled North's rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival traditional cultural and political hegemony of Mediterranean states. Includes account of conquest of polar regions, and offers historical background to current events in Far North.
Keywords: 5(091) -- History of science.
639.245.1 -- Whaling industry.
7 -- Arts, sport and architecture.
82 -- Literature.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
93"15/19" -- Sixteenth to twentieth centuries A.D.
V -- History.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*32) -- Svalbard.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*48) -- Northwest Passage.
(*501) -- Russia (Federation).
(*548) -- Scandinavia.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 93[2014]
ISBN: 9789042038370
SPRI record no.: 213558

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