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A Study In The Assimilation Of The Swede In Jamestown New York
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Book Synopsis A Study in the Assimilation of the Swede in Jamestown, New York by : J. Woodrow Sayre
Download or read book A Study in the Assimilation of the Swede in Jamestown, New York written by J. Woodrow Sayre and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis RECOLLECTIONS OF A JAMESTOWN SWEDE by : Barbara Ann Hillman Jones
Download or read book RECOLLECTIONS OF A JAMESTOWN SWEDE written by Barbara Ann Hillman Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK Jamestown, New York, is my home town. Although I went to college and moved away at the age of eighteen, my formative years were lived in Jamestown, and Jamestown will always be my home town. My mother’s family moved to Jamestown in 1925, and all of them lived the rest of their lives in Jamestown except for my mother who spent five years in West Newton, Pennsylvania. I was born in West Newton, Pennsylvania, my father’s hometown, but my parents moved to Jamestown when my father bought his own grocery store in 1940. I’m certain that having been away for the first five years of her marriage, my mother wanted to live in Jamestown with the rest of her family. Some of our relatives already lived in Jamestown, and perhaps my grandfather had an opportunity to get away from the coal mines of Dagus Mines where he worked when he first arrived in America. Immigrant Swedes helped other Swedish relatives as much as possible to get ahead in their new land. THE SWEDES IN AMERICA The first Swedes came to Delaware in 1638, just eighteen years after the Pilgrims. They made real contributions to both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The Swedes were the first to preach the Gospel to the American Indians, and Luther’s Small Catechism was translated into the Delaware Indian dialect. Many of the Swedes came for economic reasons. Much of the land in Sweden was not able to be farmed, and as the population grew and the small farms went to the eldest son, there was not much left for the remaining sons. Crop failures also contributed to their determination to go to America where it was reported that everyone was rich. In his book, Saga From the Hills, M. Lorimer Moe says: “In America there were only two classes: the rich and the newcomers who had not yet been in America long enough to become rich!” With that enticement and the encouragement of relatives who were already here, it did not take much for many of them to leave everything and travel to the “Promised Land.” Later, the Homestead Act of 1862 also promised free land in the Midwest. There were reasons other than economic, however, for coming to America. There was a very sharp class distinction between the privileged and the non-privileged. Many wanted to avoid the required military service with its harsh discipline. Others came for political reasons. In Sweden the right to vote was based on how much land a person held, some having no right to vote at all. Many came because of a very serious problem with alcohol in Sweden, and some brought that problem with them. Many came for religious reasons. There was a State Church in Sweden supported by taxes, but there was indifference and cold formalism in many parishes. However, when they came to America, they realized that the churches were not supported by taxes, and people soon learned that if the church were to survive, they had to support it. This was a new concept for Swedish immigrants, but it quickly took hold, and the Swedes built over two thousand churches and several schools and colleges in America, many of which are still thriving today. Many Swedes were simply looking for adventure, and they certainly found it in this new world. Many Swedish immigrants stopped and settled in Jamestown for several reasons, but perhaps the most important was that the trees, lakes, and hills reminded them of their homeland. Many were headed for the Midwest but upon finding the Jamestown area in Western New York, they didn’t go any farther. Most of them came in the 1850s. The earliest immigrants were farmers, but each one had a trade or skill that contributed a great deal to the success of the community. Swedish immigration was at its peak in 1882 when sixty-eight thousand Swedes came to America. It’s interesting to note that of one million two hundred thousand immigrants during that period, at least one out of four, came from Sweden.
Book Synopsis A Study of Assimilation Among the Swedes at Attica, Indiana by : Harry Lambert Linn
Download or read book A Study of Assimilation Among the Swedes at Attica, Indiana written by Harry Lambert Linn and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saga from the Hills by : M. Lorimer Moe
Download or read book Saga from the Hills written by M. Lorimer Moe and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with an Appendix Upon the Graduate Activities of the University by : University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School
Download or read book Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with an Appendix Upon the Graduate Activities of the University written by University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abstracts of Doctorial Dissertations, Degrees Granted, and Bibliography of Publications by : University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School
Download or read book Abstracts of Doctorial Dissertations, Degrees Granted, and Bibliography of Publications written by University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library Acquisitions List by : New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Library
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Race by : Vernon J. WilliamsJr.
Download or read book Rethinking Race written by Vernon J. WilliamsJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of "racial science" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park. Historians have long recognized the monumental role Franz Boas played in eviscerating the racist worldview that prevailed in the American social sciences. Williams reconsiders the standard portrait of Boas and offers a new understanding of a man who never fully escaped the racist assumptions of 19th-century anthropology but nevertheless successfully argued that African Americans could assimiliate into American society and that the chief obstacle facing them was not heredity but the prejudice of white America.
Book Synopsis Welcome Home Mr Swanson by : Ann-Kristin Wallengren
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Book Synopsis Hollywood's Indian by : Peter Rollins
Download or read book Hollywood's Indian written by Peter Rollins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-01-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals , the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.
Book Synopsis The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America by : Madison Grant
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Book Synopsis My Four Years in Germany by : James Watson Gerard
Download or read book My Four Years in Germany written by James Watson Gerard and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1917. The author was the late Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. Illustrated. From the Foreword: I am writing what should have been the last chapter of this book as a foreword because I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the twelve million men whom the Kaiser has called to the colors but one million, five hundred thousand have been killed, five hundred thousand permanently disabled, not more than five hundred thousand are prisoners of war, and about five hundred thousand constitute the number of wounded or those on the sick list of each day, leaving at all times about nine million effectives under arms. I state these figures because Americans do not grasp either the magnitude or the importance of this war. Perhaps the statement that over five million prisoners of war are held in the various countries will bring home to Americans the enormous mass of men engaged. Contents: My First Year in Germany; Political and Geographical; Diplomatic Work of First Winter in Berlin; Militarism in Germany and the Zabern Affair; Psychology and Causes Which Prepared the Nation for War; At Kiel Just Before the War; The System; The Days Before the War; The Americans at the Outbreak of Hostilities; Prisoners of War; First Days of the War: Political and Diplomatic; Diplomatic Negotiations; Mainly Commercial; Work for the Germans; War Charities; Hate; Diplomatic Negotiations; Liberals and Reasonable Men; The German People in War; and Last. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.
Author :Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Publisher :SIPRI Yearbook ISBN 13 :9780198296461 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (964 download)
Book Synopsis SIPRI Yearbook 1999 by : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Download or read book SIPRI Yearbook 1999 written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by SIPRI Yearbook. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 30th edition of the Yearbook analyses developments in 1998 in: Security and conflicts; Military spending and armaments; Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.It also contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology ofsecurity- and arms control-related events.Studies in this volume:major armed conflictsthe conflicts in Kashmir, Kosovo and Tajikistanarmed conflict prevention, management and resolutionthe Good Friday Agreement for Northern Irelandregional studies of security in the Middle East, the Caspian Sea region and Europemilitary reform in Russiaworld military expenditureChinese military expendituremilitary research and developmentthe nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistanarms productiontransfers of major conventional weaponsinternational and regional efforts to control the trade in small armsnuclear, chemical and biological arms controlthreats posed by developments in biotechnology and genetic engineeringconventional arms controlthe prohibition on anti-personnel minesmultilateral non-cooperative responses to the proliferation of weapons of mass destructionThe Yearbook has unique collections of official documents concluded during the year in the field of arms control, disarmament and international security. The annual accounts and analyses are extensively footnoted, providing a comprehensive bibliography in each subject area.