The old country and the new : essays on Swedes and America / H. Arnold Barton.
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- Language:
- English
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- 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:
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- 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
- MaĚŠns 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:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Writings by H. Arnold Barton on Swedish-American history and culture": pages 279-283.
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- OCLC:
- 65644305
- Publisher Number:
- 9780809327140
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