Title:
The Viking heart : how Scandinavians conquered the world
Author:
Herman, Arthur, 1956- author.
ISBN:
9781328595904
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xix, 484 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 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.
Abstract:
"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.
