Karen Oslund

Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Karen Oslund is assistant professor of world history at Towson University in Maryland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780295990835
• ISBN-10: 029599083X
• Artikelnr.: 32729917

Autorenporträt

Karen Oslund is assistant professor of world history at Towson University in Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps
Foreword by William Cronon
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Imagining Iceland: Narrating the North
1. Icelandic Landscapes: Natural Histories and National Histories
2. Nordic by Nature: Classifying and Controlling Flora and Fauna in Iceland
3. Mastering the World's Edges: Technology, Tools, and Material Culture in
the North Atlantic
4. Translating and Converting: Language and Religion in Greenland
5. Reading Backward: Language and the Sagas in the Faroe Islands
Epilogue. Whales and Men: Contested Scientific Ethics and Cultural Politics
in the North Atlantic
Notes
Bibliography
Index