Swedish Chicago

Swedish Chicago
Author: Anita Olson Gustafson
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501757628

Swedes in Michigan

Swedes in Michigan
Author: Rebecca J. Mead
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1609173236

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of Swedish immigrants came to Michigan seeking new opportunities in the United States and relief from economic, religious, or political problems at home. In addition to establishing early farming communities, Swedish immigrants worked on railroad construction, mining, fishing, logging, and urban manufacturing. As a result, Swedish Americans made significant contributions to the economic and cultural landscape of Michigan, a history this book explores in engaging and illustrative depth. Swedes in Michigan traces the evolution of hard-working people who valued education and assimilated actively while simultaneously maintaining their cultural ties and institutions. Moving from past to present, the book examines community patterns, family connections, social organizations, exchange programs, ethnic celebrations, and business and technical achievements that have helped Swedes in Michigan maintain a sense of their heritage even as they have adapted to American life.

Swedish Exodus

Swedish Exodus
Author: Lars Ljungmark
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780809320479

"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 when they reached their adopted country, and how they gradually became Americanized. Ljungmark’s essential challenge was to capture in a factual account the broad sweep of emigration history. But often he narrows his focus to look closely at those who took part in this mass migration. Through historical records and personal letters, Ljungmark brings many of these people back to life. One young woman, for example, loved her parents, but loved America more: "I never expect to speak to you in this life. . . . Your loving daughter unto death." Like most immigrants, she never expected to return. Another immigrant wrote back seeking a wife: "I wonder how you have it and if you are living. . . . Are you married or unmarried? If you are unmarried, you can have a good home with me." Ljungmark also focuses closely on some of the leaders: Peter Cassel, a liberal temperance supporter and free-church leader whose community in America prospered; Hans Mattson, a colonel in the Civil War and founder of a colony in Minnesota; Erik Jansson, a book burner, self-proclaimed messiah, and founder of the Bishop Hill Colony; Gustaf Unonius, a student idealist and founder of a Wisconsin colony that faltered. The story of Swedish immigrants in the United States is the story in miniature of the greatest mass migration in human history, that of thirty-five million Europeans who left their homes to come to America. It is a human story of interest not only to Swedes but to everyone.

Swedish-American Life in Chicago

Swedish-American Life in Chicago
Author: Philip J. Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

Papers originally presented at a conference held in Chicago in Oct. 1988, sponsored by the Swedish-American Historical Society, and other others.

Swedes in the Twin Cities

Swedes in the Twin Cities
Author: Philip J. Anderson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873513999

A collection of essays by scholars from both the United States and Sweden investigate various facets of Swedish life and culture in the Twin Cities.

Swedes in Minnesota

Swedes in Minnesota
Author: Anne Gillespie Lewis
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873517539

A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.

The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking

The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
Author: Lars Gustaf Andersson
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781783209866

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile, offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigrant films that would otherwise remain invisible and...

I Go to America

I Go to America
Author: Joy K. Lintelman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0873517628

An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century--why they left, what they found, and how they survived.