Norwegians and Swedes in the United States : friends and neighbors / edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck.

Contributor Anderson, Philip J.

Imprint:Saint Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2012.

Descriptionxv, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Note:Friends and neighbors? Patterns of Norwegian-Swedish interaction in the United States / Dag Blanck -- Norwegians and Swedes in America: some comparisons / H. Arnold Barton -- Preserving a cultural heritage across boundaries: a comparative perspective on Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt and Nordmanns-Forbundet / Odd S. Lovoll -- Freedom, identity, and double perspectives: representations of the migrant experience in the novels of Vilhelm Moberg and O.E. Rølvaag / Ingeborg Kongslien -- "Ar du Svensk?" "Norsk! Norsk!" Folk humor and cultural difference in Scandinavian America / James P. Leary -- Long after the immigrant language shift: Swedish and Norwegian in heritage communities / Angela Falk -- Writing history together: Norwegian American and Swedish American historians in dialogue / Mark Safstrom --

Note:"We are Norwegians and Swedes now, not Scandinavians:" the impact of Norwegian independence on Scandinavian American politics in the Midwest / Jørn Brøndal -- An end to brotherhood? Swedes and Norwegians in America discuss the 1905 Union Dissolution / Ulf Jonas Björk -- "The sociological factor is not to be underestimated:" Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran merger negotiations, 1920-60 / Mark Granquist -- A question of conscience: Minnesota's Norwegian American Lutherans and the teaching of evolution / Kurt W. Peterson --

Note:Journeymen or traditional emigrants? Norwegian and Swedish engineers and architects in North America, 1880-1930 / Per-Olaf Grönberg -- Corncobs to classmates: Swedish Americans at a Norwegian American college / Joy K. Lintelman -- A Scandinavian enclave on Lake Superior's north shore: settlement patterns and commnunity building among Norwegians, Swedes, and Swede Finns in Hovland, Minnesota, 1888-1932 / Philip J. Anderson -- Norwegians and Swedes in Willmar, Minnesota, in the early twentieth century: neighbors, friends, schoolmates, and lovers / Byron J. Nordstrom -- The basis for Pan-Scandinavian cooperation in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Nordic involvement in American politics prior to 1930 / David C. Mauk -- Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West: pragmatic and programmatic / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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