{"product_id":"2940170574162","title":"Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North","description":"Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life's vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how accurate is our picture of life in Scandinavia today?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScandinavians\u003c\/i\u003e follows a chronological progression across the Northern centuries: the Vendel era of Swedish prehistory; the age of the Vikings; the Christian conversions of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland; the unified Scandinavian state of the late Middle Ages; the sea-change of the Reformation; the kingdom of Denmark-Norway; King Gustav Adolphus and the age of Sweden's greatness; the cultural golden age of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Munch; the impact of the Second World War; Scandinavia's postwar social democratic nirvana; and the terror attacks of Anders Behring Breivik.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098504904944,"sku":"2940170574162","price":22.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170574162_p0.jpg?v=1763712969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170574162","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}