From Scandinavia To America
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From Scandinavia To America
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Author : Steffen Elmer Jørgensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
From Scandinavia To America written by Steffen Elmer Jørgensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Danes categories.
From Scandinavia To America
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
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Scandinavian Roots American Lives
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Author : Krister Björklund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Scandinavian Roots American Lives written by Krister Björklund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Canada categories.
Provides an introduction to emigration from the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to North American, particularly in the mid- to late-1800's. Includes primary source material in the form of period photographs.
Images Of America In Scandinavia
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Author : Poul Houe
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1998
Images Of America In Scandinavia written by Poul Houe and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The subject of Images of America in Scandinavia, the first comprehensive study of its kind, is as multifaceted, complex, and overwhelming as America or the United States, itself. It concerns the nature and function, reality and fiction of such images in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden past and present. The book is intended to be a source of solid information as well as a starting point for further inquiries into its cultural territory. Part of its focus is on images of America rooted in printed sources, but, in addition, general surveys of other cultural signs of America in the Scandinavian countries present a broader picture and provide some of the background for the predominantly literary images. Issues such as government and politics, popular and vanguard music and art, and socio-cultural institutions intermittently come to the fore. Framing the volume's three pairs of national surveys is an introductory chapter, which addresses the entire subject from a bird's-eye view, and a concluding chapter, which, by contrast, delves into the cross-fire of sentiments defining people whose images of America, are both American and Scandinavian. The discussion of America as perceived in Scandinavia sheds new light on intriguing inter-Scandinavian cultural distinctions and borderlines. Countless books and articles, methods and theories, have been devoted to the study of national and cultural identity. Still, the exchanges between such identities and the images they engender - so indispensable for the participants in a global culture - remain clouded by many misconceptions. Images of America in Scandinavia whose editors and authors all have Scandinavian backgrounds, will contribute an improved understanding of the cultural interplay between Scandinavia and the United States of America.
The Scandinavian American
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Author : Alfred O. Fonkalsrud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Scandinavian American written by Alfred O. Fonkalsrud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Scandinavian Americans categories.
The American Scandinavian
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The American Scandinavian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Scandinavia categories.
Scandinavians As A Social Force In America
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Author : Alfred O. Fonkalsrud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Scandinavians As A Social Force In America written by Alfred O. Fonkalsrud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Scandinavians categories.
Norwegian Swedish And Danish Immigrants 1820 1920
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Author : Kay Melchisedech Olson
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2002
Norwegian Swedish And Danish Immigrants 1820 1920 written by Kay Melchisedech Olson and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses reasons Scandinavian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Prairie Voices
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Author : Gerald D. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Prairie Voices written by Gerald D. Anderson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Assimilation (Sociology) categories.
In 1976, the Northwest Minnesota Regional History Center, a part of the Minnesota Historical Society, conducted a bi-centennial project to record the voices of first and second generation Scandinavian Immigrants in the Upper Midwest, especially in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota. The author traveled to their homes and interviewed more than a hundred immigrants or their children to gather information on the immigrant experience. Among the issues explored with these people were conditions in the home country, reasons for emigration, the route of the emigrations and the voyage to America, initial impressions, and the first year in America. The statistical information on this immigration experience, especially for the Norwegians and the Swedes, is quite excellent, but the oral history project was also attempting to capture the intense feelings of the "divided heart" and the psychological crisis of leaving family and friends behind. The interviews also attempted to gather information as to the acculturation of the immigrants. Which new aspects of America did they accept and which did they reject? Finally, the project attempted to measure the retention of Scandinavian traditions and attitudes as they existed at the time of the Bi-centennial. The Swedes, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Icelanders, and the Finns told of their retention of customs, of their church, of their educational experiences, of their language, of their literature, of their music, and, of course, of their cuisine. This book is arranged with separate chapters to examine these issues, mostly using the verbatim transcripts of the interviews. An old Icelandic woman describes traveling by covered wagon to the plains of North Dakota. An old Norwegian man describes patrolling the Swedish border when war threatened in 1905. An old Swedish woman describes homesteading on the prairie. These are wonderful and poignant words, but a transcript can never capture the musical brogue describing the longing for Norway nor can they portray the tear that rolls down a face as a man describes that last Christmas in Sweden. The author is a retired professor of history who taught at Luther College, North Dakota State University, and Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Scandinavians In Michigan
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Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2006-05-12
Scandinavians In Michigan written by Jeffrey W. Hancks and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-12 with History categories.
The Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Their age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scandinavians felt comfortable with each other, a feeling forged through centuries of familiarity, and they usually chose to live in close proximity in communities throughout the Upper Midwest of the United States. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century and continuing until the 1920s, hundreds of thousands left Scandinavia to begin life in the United States and Canada. Sweden had the greatest number of its citizens leave for the United States, with more than one million migrating between 1820 and 1920. Per capita, Norway was the country most affected by the exodus; more than 850,000 Norwegians sailed to America between 1820 and 1920. In fact, Norway ranks second only to Ireland in the percentage of its population leaving for the New World during the great European migration. Denmark was affected at a much lower rate, but it too lost more than 300,000 of its population to the promise of America. Once gone, the move was usually permanent; few returned to live in Scandinavia. Michigan was never the most popular destination for Scandinavian immigrants. As immigrants began arriving in the North American interior, they settled in areas to the west of Michigan, particularly in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. Nevertheless, thousands pursued their American dream in the Great Lakes State. They settled in Detroit and played an important role in the city’s industrial boom and automotive industry. They settled in the Upper Peninsula and worked in the iron and copper mines. They settled in the northern Lower Peninsula and worked in the logging industry. Finally, they settled in the fertile areas of west Michigan and contributed to the state’s burgeoning agricultural sector. Today, a strong Scandinavian presence remains in town names like Amble, in Montcalm County, and Skandia, in Marquette County, and in local culinary delicacies like æbleskiver, in Greenville, and lutefisk, found in select grocery stores throughout the state at Christmastime.