American Swedish ‘73

American Swedish ‘73
Author: Leif Sjoberg
Publisher: American Swedish Hist Museum
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781422365465

The 1973 edition of the journal published by the American Swedish Historical Foundation. Contents: The Swedish-American of the Year; Nordstjernan-Svea 100; Gerhard T. Rooth; Thyra Ferre-Bjorn; Bishop Hill, Illinois; Robert Owen & Bishop Hill; Joe Hill & The Emigrants; Sture Lindmark¿s Swedish-America, 1014-1932; Emigration Research at Uppsala: Five Dissertations; Scandinavica at Claremont College; Dialect Hunters in Swedish America; Maryland, My Maryland!; The Other Emigrants; The House of Immigrants: Vaxja; Varmland¿s Emigrant Register; Texas Swedish Pioneers Assoc.; Maine¿s New Sweden Historical Museum; The Erlander Home Museum; Sweden¿s Sexual Code; The Swedish Council of America; & Book Reviews.

Letters from the Promised Land

Letters from the Promised Land
Author: H. Arnold Barton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2000-08-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781452905457

Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs--a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.

Norwegians and Swedes in the United States

Norwegians and Swedes in the United States
Author: Philip J. Anderson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873518411

Eighteen essays explore interactions among Swedish and Norwegian immigrants to America, focusing on themes of friendship and competition through the lenses of identity, language, religion, and politics.

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.

A Community Transplanted

A Community Transplanted
Author: Robert Clifford Ostergren
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780299113247

The book follows the people from the Swedish farming community of Rättvik to Isanti County, Minnesota and explores the link of people and places between Sweden and America.

New Land, New Lives

New Land, New Lives
Author: Janet Elaine Guthrie
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295803851

New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes—more than half of them women—the book is illustrated with family photographs and also includes background information on Scandinavian culture and immigration.

Blessings of Babel

Blessings of Babel
Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110862964

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

The Search for Ancestors

The Search for Ancestors
Author: Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809308934

Sven Svensson (1817-1908) married Sara Marie Öhrn, and they emigrated from Sweden to land near West Dayton (now Dayton), Iowa in 1867. Descendants lived in Iowa, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes Swedish ancestry in the province of Småland, which contains the counties of Jönköping, Kronoberg and Kalmar.