From Iceland to the Americas SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration

From Iceland to the Americas SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & ImmigrationThis volume looks at how Leif Eirikssons visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.

this study also uncovers musical films that have been unjustly neglected for far too long

This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative

‘Anarchism in Local Governance’ relates the municipal political and administrative governance of Savonlinna

Despite a shared familiarity with cultural and political institutions

This volume brings together specially selected articles

It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective

Japan’s preeminent connoisseur of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints)

politicians

Bloody Sunday was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated

The first book to provide a cultural and natural history of this place – taking into account the indigenous people’s concept of the seasons (six instead of four) – Black Swan Lake will be enjoyed by conservationists

examines the activities

and the dissemination of fashion through travel