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Author : John S. Lindberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
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 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars Ljungmark
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
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 : John S. Lindberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
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 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Behalf of Minnesota Univ Pres
ISBN 13 : 9780816671731
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Background of Swedish Emigration to the United States written by John Lindberg and published by University of Chicago Behalf of Minnesota Univ Pres. This book was released on 1930 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Background of Swedish Emigration to the United States was first published in 1930. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The author, for three years a fellow of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, examines the movement that, about the middle of the nineteenth century, swept over Sweden like an epidemic and carried away a large portion of her youth to America. Some of the more important chapters discuss the character of group emigration, the pattern of mass emigration, the background of agricultural emigration, the selection of emigrants, the industrial emigration, the professional emigration, the return of the emigrants, and the cessation of emigration.
Author : Frederick Hale
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870203371
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swedes in Wisconsin written by Frederick Hale and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Author : Philip J. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swedish-American Life in Chicago written by Philip J. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers originally presented at a conference held in Chicago in Oct. 1988, sponsored by the Swedish-American Historical Society, and other others.
Author : Anita Olson Gustafson
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757628
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swedish Chicago written by Anita Olson Gustafson and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip J. Anderson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513999
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swedes in the Twin Cities written by Philip J. Anderson and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joy K. Lintelman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517628
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book I Go to America written by Joy K. Lintelman and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century--why they left, what they found, and how they survived.
Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 160917044X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
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.
