The Dream of the North : a Cultural History to 1920.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. Finding a Footing: Th e North before 1700; The Mediterranean Looking North; Destruction cometh out of the north -- The Dream of the Pacific; The Reformation: The Great Divide; Arctic Attractions; Anglo-Scandinavian Connections; Wars and Whales; The Emergence of a Northern Identity; Atlantis Discovered; 2. Preparing for Take-Off : The Early Eighteenth Century; Northern Politics and Peter the Great; The Arctic Race Continues; Greenland and Spitsbergen; The Nature of the North and Northern Nature.

The Edge of Civilisation: LaplandScience, Culture and Religion; Anglo-Saxon Revival; The Past Is the Future; 3. The Great Watershed: 1750-1790; The Problem of Progress; A Taste of Flora and the Country Green -- Discovering Britain's North; The Grand Tour and the North; Arctic Adventures; Whaling; The Southern North; Reappropriating the Past; Ossian and Oral Traditions; The Ossian Effect; The Sagas and Contemporary Art; 4. Fastening the Grip: 1790-1830; The French Revolution; Icy Ruins; Arctic Attack; 1818; With Hammer and Tongs; The Antarctic and the Whaling Industry; The Popular Arctic.

Travellers Turning NorthMadame de Staël; Discovering Scandinavia; Britain's Past Is Scotland's Past; Germany: Vikings, Volk and Fairy Tales; Scandinavia: Old Dreams, New Beginnings; 5. The Northern Heyday: 1830-1880; Tipping the Scales; The Northwest Passage, at Last?; For the Pole; The Russian Route; Whales and Seals and the Southern Seas; Chilling Science; Franklin In Memoriam; Narratives of the North; Music and Art on Ice; Fashionable Scandinavia; Politicising the Past; Academia Heroica; Arty Vikings; 6. The Closing Circle: 1880-1920; The Turn of the Century; The Final Push in the Arctic.

The Last Polar Battle: the South PoleNatural Resources; Science, Technology andthe Problem of Progress Revisited; Utopia and Dystopia: Northern Modernism; The Case of Germany; Northern Travel; Ancient Nordicism: Constructive or Destructive?; Robert Ames Bennet's Polar Romance; Postscript; Bibliography; Index; Note on the Author.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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