| Description |
xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Writings by H. Arnold Barton on Swedish-American history and culture": pages 279-283. |
| Summary |
"In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Historians of the Scandinavians in North America -- Pre-dawn of the Swedish migration : before 1846 -- The Eric-Janssonists and the shifting contours of community -- Swedish reactions to the emigration question around 1900 -- The life and times of Swedish America -- Cultural interplay between Sweden and Swedish America -- Scandinavian immigrant women's encounter with America -- From Swede to Swedish American : the conversion theme in the literature of Swedish America -- Måns Jakob's grindstone, or documentary sources and the transference of Swedish material culture to North America -- As they tell it themselves : the testimony of immigrant letters -- Emigrants' images of Sweden -- William Widgery Thomas, Jr., and Sweden -- Partners and rivals : Norwegian and Swedish emigration and immigrants -- After the great migration : Swedish America and Sweden since 1940 -- The latest wave : Swedish immigration to the United States since World War II -- Remigration to Sweden in European perspective -- A historian as genealogist -- Two versions of the immigrant experience -- Rascals and ne'er-do-wells : the underside of Swedish America -- Stage migration and ethnic maintenance -- The Swedes and Tinsel Town -- Landscapes -- Reflections on a trans-Atlantic flight -- Writings by H. Arnold Barton on Swedish-American history and culture. |
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Swedish Americans -- History.
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Swedish Americans -- Social life and customs.
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Swedish Americans -- Social conditions.
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Swedish Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Immigrants -- United States -- History.
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Sweden -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| ISBN |
0809327147 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780809327140 cloth alkaline paper |
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