Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Norwegian Migration to America ...
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Norwegian Migration to America
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Companion volume to Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Norwegian Migration to America ...
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A history based on extensive study of documentary material, letters, books & pamphlets widely scattered through the United States & Norway. Much attention is devoted not only to the background of the movement & its European aspects, but also to the influence of ideas sent home by early immigrants. Illus.
Norwegian Migration to America: The American transition. I. From old world to new
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Norwegian Migration to America ...
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A history based on extensive study of documentary material, letters, books & pamphlets widely scattered through the United States & Norway. Much attention is devoted not only to the background of the movement & its European aspects, but also to the influence of ideas sent home by early immigrants. Illus.
In Their Own Words
Author: Solveig ZempelPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452903107
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Civil War Settlers
Author: Anders Bo RasmussenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108988679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it within the larger context of western settler colonialism. Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists. This unique approach to the Civil War sheds new light on how whiteness and access to territory formed an integral part of American immigration history.
Immigration and American History
Author: University of MinnesotaPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452910340
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Based on a conference at the University of Minnesota, Jan. 29-30, 1960.
New Land, New Lives
Author: Janet Elaine GuthriePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295803851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes—more than half of them women—the book is illustrated with family photographs and also includes background information on Scandinavian culture and immigration.
A Literary History of the American West
Author: Western Literature Association (U.S.)Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875650210
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.