L.K. Bertram

The Viking Immigrants

Icelandic North Americans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Gender and History
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613669
• ISBN-10: 1442613661
• Artikelnr.: 41627729

Autorenporträt

L.K. Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Dressing Up: Clothing, Power, and Upward Mobility in the Early Immigrant
Community, 1870-1900
2. Coffee Pots and Homebrew Stills: Drinking Cultures, Pleasure, and
Belonging in the Icelandic Immigrant Community
3. Unsettling Apparitions: Icelandic-North American Ghost Stories and
Superstitious Belief
4. Main Street Vikings: Anglicization, Spectacle, and the Two World Wars
5. "Don’t ask Icelanders how to make their Christmas Cake": A Brief History
of Vínarterta
Conclusion
Works Cited