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  • Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and Neighbors
  • Written by author Philip J. Anderson
  • Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 12/1/2011
  • To early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language, culture, and religion sorted them into distinct groupin
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Foreword Donna R. Gabaccia vii

Preface and Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1 Friends and Neighbors?: Patterns of Norwegian-Swedish Interaction in the United States Dag Blanck 5

Chapter 2 Norwegians and Swedes in America: Some Comparisons H. Arnold Barton 21

Culture

Chapter 3 Preserving a Cultural Heritage across Boundaries: A Comparative Perspective on Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt and Nordmanns-Forbundet Odd S. Lovoll 37

Chapter 4 Freedom, Identity, and Double Perspectives: Representations of the Migrant Experience in the Novels of Vilhelm Moberg and O. E. Rølvaag Ingeborg Kongslien 54

Chapter 5 "Är Du Svensk?"-"Norsk! Norsk!": Folk Humor and Cultural Difference in Scandinavian America James P. Leary 67

Chapter 6 Long after the Immigrant Language Shift: Swedish and Norwegian in Heritage Communities Angela Folk 85

Chapter 7 Writing History Together: Norwegian American and Swedish American Historians in Dialogue Mark Safstrom 107

Conflict

Chapter 8 "We Are Norwegians and Swedes Now, Not Scandinavians": The Impact of Norwegian Independence on Scandinavian American Politics in the Midwest JørnBrøndal 125

Chapter 9 An End to Brotherhood? Swedes and Norwegians in America Discuss the 1905 Union Dissolution Ulf Jonas Björk 139

Chapter 10 "The Sociological Factor Is Not to Be Underestimated": Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran Merger Negotiations, 1920-60 Mark Granquist 154

Chapter 11 A Question of Conscience: Minnesota's Norwegian American Lutherans and the Teaching of Evolution Kurt W. Peterson 17?

Community

Chapter 12 Journeymen or Traditional Emigrants? Norwegian and Swedish Engineers and Architects in North America, 1880-1930 Per-Olof Grönberg 197

Chapter 13 Corncobs to Classmates: Swedish Americans at a Norwegian American College Joy K. Lintelman 219

Chapter 14 A Scandinavian Enclave on Lake Superior's North Shore: Settlement Patterns and Community Building among Norwegians, Swedes, and Swede Finns in Hovland, Minnesota, 1888-1932 Philip J. Anderson 236

Chapter is Norwegians and Swedes in Willmar, Minnesota, in the Early Twentieth Century: Neighbors, Friends, Schoolmates, and Lovers Byron J Nordstrom 258

Chapter 16 The Basis for Pan-Scandinavian Cooperation in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Nordic Involvement in American Politics Prior to 1930 David C. Mauk 275

Chapter 17 Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West: Pragmatic and Programmatic Jennifer Eastman Attebery 295

Notes on Contributors 308

Index 311

Image Credits 329


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