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1 online resource (540 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, Figures and Tables -- Foreword and Acknowledgements to revised edition -- Foreword -- Note on Icelandic Names -- Note on Orthography -- Introduction -- Part I: Colonization And Commonwealth, C. 870-1262 -- 1. Discovery and Settlement -- 2. Paganism and Poetry -- 3. Constitution -- 4. The Exploration of the West -- 5. Christianization -- 6. The Church -- 7. Population and Sustenance -- 8. Social Stratification -- 9. Honour, Revenge and Feud -- 10. Identity -- 11. Sagas -- 12. Concentration of Power |
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13. Sturlungaöld: an Internal Crisis -- 14. The End of an Era -- Part II: Under Foreign Rule, C. 1262-1800 -- 15. A Dependency of the Norwegian King -- 16. The Victory of the Church -- 17. Collapse of the North Atlantic Empire -- 18. Iceland the Fishing Camp -- 19. Plague Without Rats -- 20. The English Century -- 21. Enter the Germans -- 22. Reformation -- 23. Lutheran Society -- 24. Trade Monopoly -- 25. The Gloomy 17th Century -- 26. Absolutism -- 27. Cultural Renaissance -- 28. People and Production around 1700 -- 29. Educational Revolution Without Schools -- 30. The Birth of Reykjavík |
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31. Catastrophe -- 32. From Factory Village to Administrative Centre -- 33. "A Desperate Land" -- Part III: A Primitive Society Builds A State, 1809-1918 -- 34. An Abortive Revolution -- 35. Romanticism and National Awakening -- 36. Jón Sigurðsson and the New Althing -- 37. The Search for Status in a Constitutional Monarchy -- 38. The Danish Side -- 39. Towards Legislative Powers in 1874 -- 40. Economic Growth with Old Methods -- 41. The Crisis in Rural Society -- 42. Emigration -- 43. The Age of Decked Fishing Vessels -- 44. Freedom of Trade and the Cooperative Movement -- 45. Standard of Living |
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46. Education -- 47. Democracy for Farmers -- 48. Struggle Towards Home Rule -- 49. Liberation of Women -- 50. Towards Autonomy in 1918 -- Part IV: The Great 20th Century Transformation -- 51. Industrial Revolution in Fishing -- 52. Modernization of Life -- 53. The New Working-Class Movement -- 54. A New System of Political Parties -- 55. The Depression in Iceland -- 56. War and Occupation -- 57. Republic -- 58. Post-war Politics -- 59. The Welfare State -- 60. Iceland in a Cold War -- 61. Independence Struggle on Fishing Grounds -- 62. Unstable Finance -- 63. Enter Women |
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64. Life is Fish and Tourists -- 65. Break and Continuity in Icelandic History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Iceland's 1100 Years recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in surviving for centuries without any central power after Christianity had introduced the art of writing. This was the age of the Sagas, which are not only literature but also a rare treasury of sources about a stateless society.In sharp contrast to the prosperous society portrayed by the Sagas, early modern Iceland appears to have been extremely |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787384538 |
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1787384535 |
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