Swedish American Life in Chicago. Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850-1930

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Mycket gott skick. Uppsala universitet Almqvist & Wiksell [distributor], Uppsala 1991. xii,394 sidor. Fotoillustrerad, diagram, faksimil, tabeller. Limhäftad med skyddsomslag. [23x15 cm]. Fint skick. - [Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 9]. Edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck. Originally among the papers presented at a conference 'Swedish-American Life in Chicago 1938-1988', held in Chicago in October 1988, arranged by the Swedish-American Historical Society. Contents; Introduction; Urban Swedes in American Life (Olof Gottfrid Lange - Chicago’s First Swede; St. Ansgarius and the Immigrant Community; The Community Created: Chicago Swedes 1880-1920; A Scandinavian Melting Pot in Chicago; Chicago Compared: Swedes and Other Ethnic Groups in American Cities; ‘On My Own’: Single, Swedish and Female in Turn-of-the-century Chicago); Life of the Creative Mind (Swedish Travelers’ Account of Chicago: Fredrika Bremer to Jolo; Chicago in Swedish Literature; Carl Sandburg and the Image of Chicago in Sweden; From Vermländingarne to Slavarna på Molokstorp; Chicago and Swedish-American Artists; Swedish-American Artists and Their Chicago Exhibitions); Commercial and Professional Life (Swedish Engineers in Chicago; Trasdocken: The Yearbook of the Swedish Engineers’ Society of Chicago; Swedish-American Labor in Chicago; Henry Bengtson and Swedish-American Socialism in Chicago; A New Consciousness: Jakob Bonggren as a Swedish-American Writer in Chicago; The Rise and Fall of the House of Engberg-Holmberg); Social Aspects of Swedish-American Life (The Flower King in the American Republic: The Linnæus Statue in Chicago 1891; Swedish Americans and the 1893 Columbian Exposition; Swedish-American Politics and Press Response: The Chicago Mayoral Election of 1915; Dwight L. Moody and Some Chicago Swedes; David Nyvall and Swedish-American Education; The Independent Order of Svithiod: A Swedish-American Lodge in Chicago); Notes on Contributors; Index. - Dag Anton Blanck, född den 18 december 1956 i Uddevalla, Västra Götaland, är en svensk professor i nordamerikastudier och föreståndare för Svenska institutet för Nordamerikastudier (SINAS) vid Uppsala universitet. (från Wikipedia). Ämnesord: Emigration, Immigration, Migration, Genealogi, Genealogy, Släktforskning, Förenta Staterna, Nordamerika, USA