Norwegians and Swedes in the United States : friends and neighbors / edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Philip J.

Blanck, Dag.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Norwegian Americans--Social conditions.

Norwegian Americans.

Swedish Americans--Social conditions.

Swedish Americans.

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ©2012.

Contents:

Friends and neighbors? Patterns of Norwegian-Swedish interaction in the United States / Dag Blanck

Norwegians and Swedes in America: some comparisons / H. Arnold Barton

Preserving a cultural heritage across boundaries: a comparative perspective on Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt and Nordmanns-Forbundet / Odd S. Lovoll

Freedom, identity, and double perspectives: representations of the migrant experience in the novels of Vilhelm Moberg and O.E. Rølvaag / Ingeborg Kongslien

"Ar du Svensk?" "Norsk! Norsk!" Folk humor and cultural difference in Scandinavian America / James P. Leary

Long after the immigrant language shift: Swedish and Norwegian in heritage communities / Angela Falk

Writing history together: Norwegian American and Swedish American historians in dialogue / Mark Safstrom.

"We are Norwegians and Swedes now, not Scandinavians:" the impact of Norwegian independence on Scandinavian American politics in the Midwest / Jørn Brøndal

An end to brotherhood? Swedes and Norwegians in America discuss the 1905 Union Dissolution / Ulf Jonas Björk

"The sociological factor is not to be underestimated:" Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran merger negotiations, 1920-60 / Mark Granquist

A question of conscience: Minnesota's Norwegian American Lutherans and the teaching of evolution / Kurt W. Peterson.

Journeymen or traditional emigrants? Norwegian and Swedish engineers and architects in North America, 1880-1930 / Per-Olaf Grönberg

Corncobs to classmates: Swedish Americans at a Norwegian American college / Joy K. Lintelman

A Scandinavian enclave on Lake Superior's north shore: settlement patterns and commnunity building among Norwegians, Swedes, and Swede Finns in Hovland, Minnesota, 1888-1932 / Philip J. Anderson

Norwegians and Swedes in Willmar, Minnesota, in the early twentieth century: neighbors, friends, schoolmates, and lovers / Byron J. Nordstrom

The basis for Pan-Scandinavian cooperation in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Nordic involvement in American politics prior to 1930 / David C. Mauk

Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West: pragmatic and programmatic / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

9780873518161

0873518160

9780873518413

0873518411

OCLC:

726818974