{"product_id":"the-history-of-iceland-9780816635894","title":"The History of Iceland","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.  The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.  Unique among European societies  Iceland was founded late  in the Viking Age  and has copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson  that countrys premier historian  chronicles the age of the sagas  consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history  Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Icelands \"dreary period \" which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility  especially during the early Modern Age.  Icelands renaissance began with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries  and continued with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Icelands mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark  and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647593570357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816635897","price":21.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816635894.jpg?v=1781694861","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-history-of-iceland-9780816635894","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}