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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gordon Campbell (Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 1 Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.382kg ISBN: 9780198861553ISBN 10: 0198861559 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 25 March 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsNorse America is an important book that equips the reader to interrogate the stories we think we know, and asks how - and why - we arrived where we are today. This highly readable volume is particularly suited to those who want to understand how the past is shaped in the present - often for explicit political aims. * Cat Jarman, BBC History Magazine * [An] engaging and illuminating account ... this breadth, this willingness to see the Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a much bigger story, is the great strength of this book. * Judith Jesch, History Today * Norse America is an important book that equips the reader to interrogate the stories we think we know, and asks how - and why - we arrived where we are today. This highly readable volume is particularly suited to those who want to understand how the past is shaped in the present - often for explicit political aims. * Cat Jarman, BBC History Magazine * Author InformationGordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January 2012 he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to history). He has authored and edited many books for OUP including The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004); John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (2008; co-author); Bible: the Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 R(2010); and IThe Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (2013). He most recently edited The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance for OUP. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |