Country Data Book: Iceland
Author : United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Iceland
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Author : United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Iceland
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Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0446511072
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
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Author : David Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Iceland
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Author : United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Economic assistance, American
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Alaric Hall
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1950192695
As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Economic history
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Website providing access to online versions of periodical reports issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit under the general title Country report. Each report presents an overview and analysis of key political and economic factors in a country. Sections include political outlook, economic policy outlook, and economic forecast. Reports also include statistical data.
Author : Great Britain. Embassy (Iceland)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign trade promotion
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Author : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1861897332
Iceland is an enigmatic island country marked by contradiction: it’s a part of Europe, yet separated from it by the Atlantic Ocean; it’s seemingly inhospitable, yet home to more than 300,000. Wasteland with Words explores these paradoxes to uncover the mystery of Iceland. In Wasteland with Words Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon presents a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of the island’s history that examines the evolution and transformation of Icelandic culture while investigating the literary and historical factors that created the rich cultural heritage enjoyed by Icelanders today. Magnússon explains how a nineteenth-century economy based on the industries of fishing and agriculture—one of the poorest in Europe—grew to become a disproportionately large economic power in the late twentieth century, while retaining its strong sense of cultural identity. Bringing the story up to the present, he assesses the recent economic and political collapse of the country and how Iceland has coped. Throughout Magnússon seeks to chart the vast changes in this country’s history through the impact and effect on the Icelandic people themselves. Up-to-date and fascinating, Wasteland with Words is a comprehensive study of the island’s cultural and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power.