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In this unique longitudinal study of how a divided people relate to one another, H. Arnold Barton outlines dilemmas created by the great migration of Swedes to the United States from 1840 through 1940 and the complex love-hate relationship that resulted between those who stayed and those who left. During that hundred-year period, one Swede out of five voluntarily immigrated to the United States, and four-fifths of those immigrants remained in their new country. This study seeks to explore the far-reaching implications of this mass migration for both Swedes and Swedish Americans.The Swedes were a literate, historically aware people, and the 1.2 million Swedes who immigrated to the United States offer a particularly well-documented and illuminating case study. Barton has skillfully woven into the text translations of little known published and unpublished Swedish sources from both sides of the Atlantic, to embody--in haunting human terms--both what was gained and what was lost through emigration.Past studies have traditionally shown ethnic mobilization to be a defensive reaction against the exclusive nativism of resident Americans. Barton convincingly demonstrates, however, that the creation of a distinctive Swedish-American identity was at least equally an expression of the immigrants' need to justify leaving their homeland to their former compatriots and to themselves by asserting a rightful and unique place within the Swedish national community. He concludes that the relationship between Swedes and Swedish Americans was essentially similar to that experienced by other peoples divided by migration, and that the long debate over the United States and emigration at its deepest level reveals both hopes and fears most conspicuously symbolized by America and "Americanization" in an increasingly integrated world undergoing the relentless advance of modernization.

Swedish Americans --- Ethnic identity. --- Sweden --- Emigration and immigration --- History. --- Ethnology --- Swedes --- Kingdom of Sweden --- Konungariket Sverige --- Schweden --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Suecia --- Suède --- Suwēden --- Sverige --- Svezia --- Szwecja --- Zviedrija --- Zweden --- スウェーデン --- SWEDEN --- Social science --- History

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"H. Arnold Barton investigates Norwegian political and cultural influences in Sweden during the period of the Swedish-Norwegian dynastic union from 1814 to 1905." "Although closely related in origins, indigenous culture, language, and religion, Sweden and Norway had very different histories, resulting in strongly contrasting societies and forms of government before 1814. After a proud medieval past, Norway had come under the Danish crown in the fourteenth century and had been reduced to virtually a Danish province by the sixteenth." "In 1814, as a spinoff of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark relinquished Norway, which became a separate kingdom, dynastically united with Sweden with its own government under a constitution independently framed that year. Disputes during the next ninety-one years caused Norway unilaterally to dissolve the tie."--Jacket.

Nationalism --- Northern Europe & Scandinavia --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Sweden --- Norway --- Kingdom of Norway --- Kongeriket Noreg --- Kongeriket Norge --- Noreg --- Norga --- Norge --- Norgga gonagasriika --- Norja --- Noruwē --- Norvège --- Norvegia --- Norveška --- Norwegen --- Norwegia --- ノルウェー --- Kingdom of Sweden --- Konungariket Sverige --- Schweden --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Suecia --- Suède --- Suwēden --- Sverige --- Svezia --- Szwecja --- Zviedrija --- Zweden --- スウェーデン --- History --- Relations --- 19th century

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Swedish imprints --- Rare books --- Catalogs. --- Bibliography --- 655.41 <73> --- 094 =397 --- 027.1 <485> --- -Swedish imprints --- -Bibliography --- Book rarities --- Books --- Rare library materials --- Publishing in general. Publishing houses. Publishers--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Zweeds --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Zweden --- -Catalogs --- Catalogs --- Dahllof, Tell G. --- -Library --- -Publishing in general. Publishing houses. Publishers--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 027.1 <485> Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Zweden --- Bibliography&delete& --- Dahllöf, Tell G., --- Library --- O. Meredith Wilson Library. --- United States --- Swedish Americans --- History --- Dahllöf, Tell G. --- Swedish imprints - United States - Catalogs. --- Swedish imprints - Canada - Catalogs. --- Rare books - Minnesota - Bibliography - Catalogs. --- Suede --- Etats-unis --- Imprimes --- Imprimes suedois --- Bibliographie