New Sweden on the Delaware

New Sweden on the Delaware
Author: Clinton Alfred Weslager
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

"No state lines existed when New Sweden attained its full size, and Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania became separate colonies..."--Introd. New Sweden lasted from 1638-1655.

A History of New Sweden

A History of New Sweden
Author: Israel Acrelius
Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1966
Genre: History
ISBN:

New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power. New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas. Settlements were established on both sides of the Delaware Valley in the region of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, often in places where Swedish traders had been visiting since about 1610.

New Sweden in America

New Sweden in America
Author: Carol E. Hoffecker
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874135206

"Although it was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley, the New Sweden colony has long been ignored by American colonial historians. To right this omission, and to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony, the University of Delaware sponsored an international conference, "New Sweden in America: Scandinavian Pioneers and Their Legacy" in March of 1988. This event brought together twenty-eight scholars from Sweden, Finland, and the United States who represented several fields, including history, anthropology, and geography. The conference papers, collected in New Sweden in America, present the first look at the New Sweden colony since the advent of modern historical methods." "The essays in this volume examine the economic and social lives of a political entity, as well as its political structures. The topics discussed include an examination of the European environment from which the colonial venture came, the colonists' relations with the Native Americans, and the Swedish and Finnish settlers' adaptation to colonial life. The essays depict seventeenth-century Sweden as it emerged from its traditional ways and isolation into the dynamic world of Western European international politics and trade, and the failed attempts to bring European mercantilist policies to New Sweden." "The fascinating stories of the trade between the Swedish and Dutch settlers and the Susquehannock and Lenni Lenape Indians, the development of pidgin languages to facilitate the trade, the devout Lutheran religious observations of the colonists, and the introduction of Finnish construction methods (especially the log cabin) are all described in this volume. To encourage further scholarship in this field, the contributors identify topics for future study and delineate where original colonial documents may be found on both sides of the Atlantic."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

An Economic History of Modern Sweden

An Economic History of Modern Sweden
Author: Lennart Schön
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136338500

The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for sectors and branches covering the whole economy, even including estimates of non-marketed domestic work. It is also based on a broad literature from Swedish historiography with details on the individual level of firms, innovators and entrepreneurs. Focus is upon the interplay between technological, economic and social change where a number of broad themes are treated with a general interest to historians or economists, e.g. the role of social change and domestic markets versus international specialisation and exports as dynamic factors in Swedish economic growth.

Africans in New Sweden

Africans in New Sweden
Author: Abdullah R. Muhammad
Publisher: Cedar Tree Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781892142566

An Economic History of Sweden

An Economic History of Sweden
Author: Lars Magnusson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000-03-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113467595X

This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfar

Colonialism in the Margins

Colonialism in the Margins
Author: Gunlög Maria Fur
Publisher: Atlantic World
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first book-length study of Swedish-Indian encounters in the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River focuses on land, trade and culture from the founding in 1638 until the 1680s, and compares these relations with Swedish interaction with Saami people.