The Background of Swedish Immigration, 1840-1930
| Author | : Florence Edith Janson |
| Publisher | : Ayer Company Pub |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 1970-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780405005565 |
The Background Of Swedish Immigration 1840 1930
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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.
Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914
| Author | : Donald Harman Akenson |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2011-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773590781 |
This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the Great European Diaspora of the "true" nineteenth century. Akenson's book parts company with the great bulk of recent emigration research by employing sharp transnational comparisons and by situating the two case studies in the larger context of the Great European Migration and of what determines the physics of a diaspora: no small matter, as the concept of diaspora has become central to twenty-first-century transnational studies. He argues (against the increasing refusal of mainstream historians to use empirical databases) that the history community still has a lot to learn from economic historians; and, simultaneously, that (despite the self-confidence of their proponents) narrow, economically based explanations of the Great European Migration leave out many of the most important aspects of the whole complex transaction. Akenson believes that culture and economic matters both count, and that leaving either one on the margins of explanation yields no valid explanation at all.
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.
American Swedish Historical Foundation: The Chronicle, Spring 1955
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : American Swedish Hist Museum |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781437950243 |
The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics
| Author | : Allan C. Carlson |
| Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Family policy |
| ISBN | : 9781412839303 |
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.
Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863
| Author | : Robert Ernst |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1994-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780815602903 |
This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanization of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote.
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective
| Author | : A. Buttimer |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2013-04-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9401723923 |
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change. Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical restraints. Through such writing a discourse of understanding and common action becomes possible. The authors come from the places they discuss, and offer passionate as well as scholarly visions of nature within their cultural homes. Audience: This volume is of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of cultural geography, environmental history, environmental studies, history of environmental ideas, environmental education, landscape and literature, nature and culture. It can be used for courses in the above-mentioned areas and seminars in comparative literature. It can also be used as a complimentary text to provide cultural context to literary readings, and for seminars on cultural aspects of the environment.
The Handbook of International Migration
| Author | : Charles Hirschman |
| Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 1999-11-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 161044289X |
The historic rise in international migration over the past thirty years has brought a tide of new immigrants to the United States from Asia, South America, and other parts of the globe. Their arrival has reverberated throughout American society, prompting an outpouring of scholarship on the causes and consequences of the new migrations. The Handbook of International Migration gathers the best of this scholarship in one volume to present a comprehensive overview of the state of immigration research in this country, bringing coherence and fresh insight to this fast growing field. The contributors to The Handbook of International Migration—a virtual who's who of immigration scholars—draw upon the best social science theory and demographic research to examine the effects and implications of immigration in the United States. The dramatic shift in the national background of today's immigrants away from primarily European roots has led many researchers to rethink traditional theories of assimilation,and has called into question the usefulness of making historical comparisons between today's immigrants and those of previous generations. Part I of the Handbook examines current theories of international migration, including the forces that motivate people to migrate, often at great financial and personal cost. Part II focuses on how immigrants are changed after their arrival, addressing such issues as adaptation, assimilation, pluralism, and socioeconomic mobility. Finally, Part III looks at the social, economic, and political effects of the surge of new immigrants on American society. Here the Handbook explores how the complex politics of immigration have become intertwined with economic perceptions and realities, racial and ethnic divisions,and international relations. A landmark compendium of richly nuanced investigations, The Handbook of International Migration will be the major reference work on recent immigration to this country and will enhance the development of a truly interdisciplinary field of international migration studies.
