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Author : Anne Gillespie Lewis
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873517539
A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.
Author : Philip J. Anderson,Dag Blanck
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0873513991
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 : Nils Hasselmo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : UOM:39015008293618
Author : Joy K. Lintelman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873517621
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 : Klas Bergman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1681340305
The story of Nordic immigrant influence in Minnesota politics and culture, and the lasting legacy of a "Scandinavian state in the New World."
Author : Algot E. Strand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : NYPL:33433081801874
Author : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873513215
The third book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
Author : Algot E. Strand
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1377477398
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Author : Arnold Robert Alanen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873518604
This succinct yet comprehensive volume outlines the contributions and culture of Minnesota's Finnish Americans, perhaps best known for their cooperative ventures, their political involvement, and, of course, their saunas.
Author : Ola Larsmo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452956909
A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century When Gustaf and Anna Klar and their three children leave Sweden for New York in 1897, they take with them a terrible secret and a longing for a new life. But their dream of starting over is nearly crushed at the outset: a fire devastates Ellis Island just as they arrive, and then the relentlessly harsh conditions and lack of work in the city make it impossible for Gustaf to support his family. An unexpected gift allows the Klars to make one more desperate move, this time to the Midwest and a place called Swede Hollow. Their new home is a cluster of rough-hewn shacks in a deep, wooded ravine on the edge of St. Paul, Minnesota. The Irish, Italian, and Swedish immigrants who live here are a hardscrabble lot usually absent from the familiar stories of Swedish American history. The men hire on as poorly paid day laborers for the Great Northern or Northern Pacific railroads or work at the nearby brewery, and the women clean houses, work at laundries, or sew clothing in stifling factories. Outsiders malign Swede Hollow as unsanitary and rife with disease, but the Klar family and their neighbors persevere in this neglected corner of the city—and consider it home. Extensively researched and beautifully written, Ola Larsmo’s award-winning novel vividly portrays a family and a community determined to survive. There are hardships, indignities, accidents, and harrowing encounters, but also acts of loyalty and kindness and moments of joy. This haunting story of a real place echoes the larger challenges of immigration in the twentieth century and today.
Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609170448
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 : Patrice Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1681340437
From smorgasbord and St. Lucia processions to Christmas Eve gatherings with dear family and friends, Swedish Americans are linked through the generations by a legacy of meatballs and lutfisk.
Author : Lars Ljungmark
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0809320479
"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 : Lilly Setterdahl
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581128088
Many of the individuals in this study were closely related. They came from an agricultural community in Sweden dominated by a large estate. The pioneers came in search of 'free' land, and they found it in Goodhue County. Former neighbors settled close to one another. Many of the descendants are still tied to the land. The author has endeavored to trace the immigrants from cradle to grave to find out how they fared in their new homeland. But she did not stop there. Whenever possible, she continued her search among the descendants. There are extracts from official records in Sweden and in America for about 320 immigrants. Including their families, the study encompasses more than one thousand individuals. Explore the intricate kinship within the group, name-changes, moves, occupations, farm locations, family members, and much more. The author, a native of Sweden, has studied and written about Swedish immigration history for the last 30 years. This book is a continuation of Minnesota Swedes: The Emigration From Trolle Ljungby 1855-1912 , which she had published in 1996.
Author : A. E. Strand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : OCLC:479942287
