Swedish Exodus

Author : Lars Ljungmark
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swedish Exodus written by Lars Ljungmark and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Donald H. Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539573
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 written by Donald H. Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative history of European emigration.

Author : Anita Olson Gustafson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092465
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swedish Chicago written by Anita Olson Gustafson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1920, emigration from Sweden to Chicago soared, and the city itself grew remarkably. During this time, the Swedish population in the city shifted from three centrally located ethnic enclaves to neighborhoods scattered throughout the city. As Swedes moved to new neighborhoods, the early enclave-based culture adapted to a progressively more dispersed pattern of Swedish settlement in Chicago and its suburbs. Swedish community life in the new neighborhoods flourished as immigrants built a variety of ethnic churches and created meaningful social affiliations, in the process forging a complex Swedish-American identity that combined their Swedish heritage with their new urban realities. Chicago influenced these Swedes' lives in profound ways, determining the types of jobs they would find, the variety of people they would encounter, and the locations of their neighborhoods. But these immigrants were creative people, and they in turn shaped their urban experience in ways that made sense to them. Swedes arriving in Chicago after 1880 benefited from the strong community created by their predecessors, but they did not hesitate to reshape that community and build new ethnic institutions to make their urban experience more meaningful and relevant. They did not leave Chicago untouched—they formed an expanding Swedish community in the city, making significant portions of Chicago Swedish. This engaging study will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in immigration and Swedish-American history.

Author : Minneapolis (Minn.). Swedes' anniversary committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 250th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in America written by Minneapolis (Minn.). Swedes' anniversary committee and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence Edith Janson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Background of Swedish Immigration, 1840-1930 written by Florence Edith Janson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Widgery Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweden and the Swedes written by William Widgery Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 160917044X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandinavians in Michigan written by Jeffrey W. Hancks and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John S. Lindberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Background of Swedish Emigration to the United States written by John S. Lindberg and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319435
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book A Folk Divided written by Hildor Arnold Barton and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.