Nordic Transatlantic Crossings : Emigration, Interaction and Democracy 1825-1945.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemstad, Ruth.

Series:

Nordic Studies in a Global Context Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Adopting a broad and transnational Nordic approach, this book highlights the interconnected, transatlantic and reciprocal processes of migration and democracy with Nordic crossings.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Emigration, interaction and democracy in a Scandinavian-American perspective

Part I Entanglements: American society as a mirror

2 Emigration as political and religious opposition: The case of initial migration from Norway to America, 1817-1837

3 Forging America in Scandinavia: Andersson's travelogue and the Lehmanns' cyclorama of Gold Rush California

4 The women's movement: Bremer, Magelssen-Groth and Gripenberg in America

5 Norwegian and Scandinavian responses to Tocqueville and Beamont's America

6 Representations of Indigenous peoples and the construction of Norwegian identity in America: A corpus-based study

7 Transatlantic Burials: The "resurrection" of Louis Pio, Poul Geleff and Marcus Thrane

Part II Encounters: Negotiating Scandinavia in America

8 Mediating and activating politics across the Atlantic via the press: The case of Den Danske Pioneer of Omaha, Nebraska and the 1899 "Great Lockout" in Denmark

9 Historical narratives as political arguments: Leif Erikson as usable past in transatlantic perspective

10 Nation-building, land and contact zones in South Dakota and Finnmark County, Norway, 1890-1910

11 Norwegian and American voices in the United States, 1933-1945: A shared affinity for democracy

Part III Enactments: American resources for Scandinavian modernizing

12 Norwegian Georgeism, 1890-1915

13 The interwar professional women's movement in Scandinavia: "Like fresh wind from across the Atlantic"

Index.

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ISBN:

1-04-075460-0

1-04-075464-3

1-003-68211-1

9781003682110

OCLC:

1549580507

Publisher Number:

CIPO000291587