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Extreme North: A Cultural History

By (author) Bernd Brunner, Translated by Jefferson Chase

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People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-manâ€™s-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its dramatic vistas, fierce weather, exotic treasures and indigenous peoplesâ€”and with the literary sagas that seemed to offer an alternate (â€œwhiterâ€ and â€œsuperiorâ€) cultural origin story to those of decadent Greece or Rome, and the moralistic â€œSemiticâ€ Bible. The Left has idealised Scandinavian social democracy. The Right borrows from a long history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. Nordic phenotypes characterised eugenics, which in turn influenced Americaâ€™s limits on immigration. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as discovered. A valuable contribution to intellectual history, full of vivid documentation, Extreme North is an enlightening journey through a place that is real, but also, in fascinating and very disturbing ways, imaginary.

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