Swedish exodus [electronic resource] / by Lars Ljungmark ; translated by Kermit B. Westerberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ljungmark, Lars.

Contributor:

Swedish Pioneer Historical Society.

Westerberg, Kermit B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish Americans.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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 w

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Figures; Preface; 1. They Left for America; 2. Group Emigration from Sweden and Stage Migration in the United States; 3. Mass Emigration from Sweden; 4. America for Sale; 5. They Sold America; Gallery #1; 6. Bound for America; 7. Who Were They and Where Did They Settle?; 8. Swedes Become Americans; Gallery #2; 9. Americanization; 10. The Consequences of Emigration in Sweden; Annual Emigration from and Remigration to Sweden 1851-1940; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Notes:

"Revised translation of the work published in 1965 under title: Den stora utvandringen"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8093-8048-X

1-299-13243-X

1-4416-1933-X

OCLC:

847466738