The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of """"the unknown Western Europe""""- a region of recent economic development and subnational peoples facing uncertain futures. This book tells the remarkable story of the Faroes' cultural survival since their Viking settlement in the early ninth century. At first an unruly little republic, the islands soon became tributary to Norway, dwindled into a Danish-Norwegian mercantilist fiefdom

Author: Jonathan Wylie
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780813160122
ISBN10: 081316012X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | Polar Regions
- History | Europe | Nordic Countries

About the Author

Jonathan Wylie is with the Anthropology/Archaeology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With David Margolin, he is coauthor of The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture.

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