Title:
The Viking heart : how Scandinavians conquered the world / Arthur Herman.
ISBN:
9781328595904
9780358536734
9780358536840
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Physical Description:
xix, 484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The wrath of the Norsemen -- Being Vikings -- The world the Vikings made, part one: from Russia to the British Isles -- The world the Vikings made, part two: Normandy, the Atlantic, and North America -- Twilight of the gods: Vikings, kings, and Christianity -- Conquerors: the Norman transformation -- Vikings into Scandinavians: from games of thrones to mighty fortresses -- Viking heart empire: King Gustavus Adolphus and the Scandinavian century -- Scandinavians into Americans -- "We are coming, Father Abraham": Scandinavians in the American Civil War -- "More wonderful than riches": American fever and the Great Migration -- Land of wonders: how two Scandinavian icons transformed Jazz Age America -- Men at work: the Viking heart and American democracy -- The Viking heart comes home -- The Viking heart in war and peace -- The Viking heart and the land beyond -- Appendix: runes and the Vikings.
Summary:
"From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1159043093
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