The Old Country and the New

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809389506
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis The Old Country and the New by : Barton, H. Arnold

Download or read book The Old Country and the New written by Barton, H. Arnold and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher

Swedish Exodus

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320479
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis Swedish Exodus by : Lars Ljungmark

Download or read book Swedish Exodus written by Lars Ljungmark and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America fever" gripped Sweden in the middle of the nineteenth century, seethed to a peak in 1910, when one-fifth of the world’s Swedes lived in America, cooled during World War I, and chilled to dead ash with the advent of the Great Depression in 1930. Swedish Exodus, the first English translation and revision of Lars Ljungmark’s Den Stora Utvandringen, recounts more than a century of Swedish emigration, concentrating on such questions as who came to America, how the character of the emigrants changed with each new wave of emigration, what these people did when they reached their adopted country, and how they gradually became Americanized. Ljungmark’s essential challenge was to capture in a factual account the broad sweep of emigration history. But often he narrows his focus to look closely at those who took part in this mass migration. Through historical records and personal letters, Ljungmark brings many of these people back to life. One young woman, for example, loved her parents, but loved America more: "I never expect to speak to you in this life. . . . Your loving daughter unto death." Like most immigrants, she never expected to return. Another immigrant wrote back seeking a wife: "I wonder how you have it and if you are living. . . . Are you married or unmarried? If you are unmarried, you can have a good home with me." Ljungmark also focuses closely on some of the leaders: Peter Cassel, a liberal temperance supporter and free-church leader whose community in America prospered; Hans Mattson, a colonel in the Civil War and founder of a colony in Minnesota; Erik Jansson, a book burner, self-proclaimed messiah, and founder of the Bishop Hill Colony; Gustaf Unonius, a student idealist and founder of a Wisconsin colony that faltered. The story of Swedish immigrants in the United States is the story in miniature of the greatest mass migration in human history, that of thirty-five million Europeans who left their homes to come to America. It is a human story of interest not only to Swedes but to everyone.

Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective

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Publisher : Edizioni Plus
ISBN 13 : 8884924987
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective by : Ann Katherine Isaacs

Download or read book Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective written by Ann Katherine Isaacs and published by Edizioni Plus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110654423
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Book Synopsis Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960 by : Frode Ulvund

Download or read book Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960 written by Frode Ulvund and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses how religious groups, especially Jews, Mormons and Jesuits, were labeled as foreign and constructed as political, moral and national threats in Scandinavia in different periods between c. 1790 and 1960. Key questions are who articulated such opinions, how was the threat depicted, and to what extent did it influence state policies towards these groups. A special focus is given to Norway, because the Constitution of 1814 included a ban against Jews (repelled in 1851) and Jesuits (repelled in 1956), and because Mormons were denied the status of a legal religion until freedom of religion was codified in the Constitution in 1964. The author emphasizes how the construction of religious minorities as perils of society influenced the definition of national identities in all Scandinavia, from the late 18th Century until well after WWII. The argument is that Jews, Mormons and Jesuits all were constructed as "anti-citizens", as opposites of what it meant to be "good" citizens of the nation. The discourse that framed the need for national protection against foreign religious groups was transboundary. Consequently, transnational stereotypes contributed significantly in defining national identities.

Methods of Compiling Emigration and Immigration Statistics

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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Book Synopsis Methods of Compiling Emigration and Immigration Statistics by : International Labour Office

Download or read book Methods of Compiling Emigration and Immigration Statistics written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For Sale - Minnesota

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Publisher : Göteborg : Läromedelsförl. (Akad.-förl.)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Book Synopsis For Sale - Minnesota by : Lars Ljungmark

Download or read book For Sale - Minnesota written by Lars Ljungmark and published by Göteborg : Läromedelsförl. (Akad.-förl.). This book was released on 1971 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Creation of an Ethnic Identity

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809389513
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis The Creation of an Ethnic Identity by : Blanck, Dag

Download or read book The Creation of an Ethnic Identity written by Blanck, Dag and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his book, Dag Blanck analyzes how Swedish American identity was constructed, maintained, and changed in the Augustana Synod from 1860 to 1917. The author poses three fundamental questions: How did an ethnic identity develop in the Augustana synod? Of what did that ethnic identity consist? Why did that ethnic identity come into being?" "[summary]"--Provided by publisher

Migration in a Mature Economy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891547
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Book Synopsis Migration in a Mature Economy by : Dudley Baines

Download or read book Migration in a Mature Economy written by Dudley Baines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the origins of emigrants from Britain, Mr Baines challenges notions of emigration as a flight from poverty.

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
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Book Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by : New York Public Library. Research Libraries

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590781
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Book Synopsis Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 by : Donald Harman Akenson

Download or read book Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 written by Donald Harman Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the Great European Diaspora of the "true" nineteenth century. Akenson's book parts company with the great bulk of recent emigration research by employing sharp transnational comparisons and by situating the two case studies in the larger context of the Great European Migration and of what determines the physics of a diaspora: no small matter, as the concept of diaspora has become central to twenty-first-century transnational studies. He argues (against the increasing refusal of mainstream historians to use empirical databases) that the history community still has a lot to learn from economic historians; and, simultaneously, that (despite the self-confidence of their proponents) narrow, economically based explanations of the Great European Migration leave out many of the most important aspects of the whole complex transaction. Akenson believes that culture and economic matters both count, and that leaving either one on the margins of explanation yields no valid explanation at all.

Between Dispersion and Belonging

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773599150
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Between Dispersion and Belonging by : Amitava Chowdhury

Download or read book Between Dispersion and Belonging written by Amitava Chowdhury and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of identity that expresses a form of belonging and also keeps alive a sense of difference. Between Dispersion and Belonging critically assesses the meaning and practice of diaspora first by engaging with the theoretical life histories of the concept, and then by examining a range of historical case studies. Essays in this volume draw from diaspora formations in the pre-modern Indian Ocean region, read diaspora against the concept of indigeneity in the Americas, reassess the claim for a Swedish diaspora, interrogate the notion of an "invisible" English diaspora in the Atlantic world, calibrate the meaning of the Irish diaspora in North America, and consider the case for a global Indian indentured-labour diaspora. Through these studies the contributors demonstrate that an inherent appeal to globality is central to modern formulations of diaspora. They are not global in the sense that diasporas span the entire globe, rather they are global precisely because they are not bound by arbitrary geopolitical units. In examining the ways in which academic and larger society discuss diaspora, Between Dispersion and Belonging presents a critique of modern historiography and positions that critique in the shape of global history. Contributors include William Safran (University of Colorado Boulder), James T. Carson (Queen's University), Eivind H. Seland (University of Bergen), Don MacRaild (University of Ulster), and Rankin Sherling (Marion Military Institute: the Military College of Alabama).

A Folk Divided

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319442
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis A Folk Divided by : Hildor Arnold Barton

Download or read book A Folk Divided written by Hildor Arnold Barton and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.

Scandinavian Exodus

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000238849
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Scandinavian Exodus by : Briant Lindsay Lowell

Download or read book Scandinavian Exodus written by Briant Lindsay Lowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. During the last half of the nineteenth century, nearly two million Norwegians and Swedes migrated to the United States. Declining rates of emigration are moderately associated with the development of urban-industrialization in Scandinavia toward the end of the 19th century. Still, the major explanation of the decline of emigration is argued to be less a response to new urban opportunities than the end result of the transformation of rural, peasant classes and the decay of the diffusion process. In this volume economic change, agricultural development, and the course of the demographic transition are separately considered to isolate the causes underlying the emigration. The social historical context is examined with an eye toward casting the results of this study in a broader light. Those lessons learned in the study of Scandinavian experience are applicable to similar processes currently unfolding in contemporary developing countries.

Swedes in Canada

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695153
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Swedes in Canada by : Elinor Barr

Download or read book Swedes in Canada written by Elinor Barr and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr’s Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals and companies are responsible for the CN Tower, ships on the Great Lakes, and log buildings in Riding Mountain National Park. They have built railways and grain elevators all across the country, as well as churches and old folks’ homes in their communities. At the national level, the introduction of cross-country skiing and the success of ParticipACTION can be attributed to Swedes. Despite this long list of accomplishments, Swedish ethnic consciousness in Canada has often been very low. Using extensive archival and demographic research, Barr explores both the impressive Swedish legacy in Canada and the reasons for their invisibility as an immigrant community.

Sweden, the Nation's History

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809314898
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Book Synopsis Sweden, the Nation's History by : Franklin Daniel Scott

Download or read book Sweden, the Nation's History written by Franklin Daniel Scott and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Sweden from a poor, backward, warrior nation to a prosperous modern one.

Migration and Economic Growth

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521085663
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Book Synopsis Migration and Economic Growth by : Brinley Thomas

Download or read book Migration and Economic Growth written by Brinley Thomas and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-05-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emigration, immigration, economic aspects, Great Britain, USA.

Peasant Maids, City Women

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725548
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis Peasant Maids, City Women by : Christiane Harzig

Download or read book Peasant Maids, City Women written by Christiane Harzig and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women, a truly intercultural project, a team of historians follows several groups of women from rural Europe to the bustling streets of Chicago. Focusing on Germans, Irish, Swedes, and Poles—the four largest foreign-born ethnic groups in the city around 1900—the authors analyze the origins of the immigrants and chart how their lives changed, and explore how immigrant women shaped the urbanization process, creating vibrant public spheres for ethnic expression.In concise social histories of four European rural cultures, the authors emphasize the crucial effects of gender. They explore the contrast between each regional culture of origin and the urban experience of ethnic communities in Chicago. The concept of assimilation, they suggest, involves two different dynamics. In the initial phase, adaptation, the new environment demands major changes of incoming immigrants to meet basic needs. The second dynamic, acculturation, involves changes for immigrants and also for the new culture with which they interact.