The old country and the new : essays on Swedes and America / H. Arnold Barton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Barton, H. Arnold (Hildor Arnold), 1929-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Swedish Americans--History.
• Swedish Americans--Social life and customs.
• Swedish Americans--Social conditions.
• Swedish Americans--Ethnic identity.
• Immigrants--United States--History.
• Immigrants.
• Swedish Americans.
• History.
• United States.
• Sweden--Emigration and immigration.
• Sweden.
• Emigration and immigration.
• United States--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

• Historians of the Scandinavians in North America
• Pre-dawn of the Swedish migration : before 1846
• The Eric-Janssonists and the shifting contours of community
• Swedish reactions to the emigration question around 1900
• The life and times of Swedish America
• Cultural interplay between Sweden and Swedish America
• Scandinavian immigrant women's encounter with America
• From Swede to Swedish American : the conversion theme in the literature of Swedish America
• Måns Jakob's grindstone, or documentary sources and the transference of Swedish material culture to North America
• As they tell it themselves : the testimony of immigrant letters
• Emigrants' images of Sweden
• William Widgery Thomas, Jr., and Sweden
• Partners and rivals : Norwegian and Swedish emigration and immigrants
• After the great migration : Swedish America and Sweden since 1940
• The latest wave : Swedish immigration to the United States since World War II
• Remigration to Sweden in European perspective
• A historian as genealogist
• Two versions of the immigrant experience
• Rascals and ne'er-do-wells : the underside of Swedish America
• Stage migration and ethnic maintenance
• The Swedes and Tinsel Town
• Landscapes
• Reflections on a trans-Atlantic flight
• Writings by H. Arnold Barton on Swedish-American history and culture.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Writings by H. Arnold Barton on Swedish-American history and culture": pages 279-283.

ISBN:

• 0809327147
• 9780809327140

OCLC:

65644305

Publisher Number:

9780809327140