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Iceland : the first new society / Richard F. Tomasson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomasson, Richard F., 1928-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iceland--Civilization.
- Iceland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 247 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Iceland, as described by Tomasson, has a fascinating, often contradictory culture, writes Seymour Martin Lipset in his forward to this book, the first sociological account in English of modern Icelandic society and the forces that have shaped it.
- Contents:
- Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 The First New Society; Chapter 2 Modern Iceland and Its Making; Chapter 3 The Demography of an Isolated People; Chapter 4 Men, Women, and Kinship; Chapter 5 Literacy and Cultural Life; Chapter 6 The Language; Chapter 7 Religion, Literature, and Alcohol; Chapter 8 Values; Notes; Appendix A: The Interview Schedule; Appendix B: The Interview Sample; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5881-1
- OCLC:
- 233169583
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