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Title

Swedes in the Twin Cities : immigrant life and Minnesota's urban frontier / edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck.

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, Philip J.
• Blanck, Dag

Description

x, 367 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Swedish Americans > Minneapolis > History > Congresses
• Swedish Americans > Saint Paul > History > Congresses
• Immigrants > Minneapolis > History > Congresses
• Immigrants > Saint Paul > History > Congresses
• City and town life > Minneapolis > Congresses
• City and town life > Saint Paul > Congresses
• Minneapolis (Minn.) > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• Saint Paul (Minn.) > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• Minneapolis (Minn.) > Social conditions > Congresses
• Saint Paul (Minn.) > Social conditions > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Based on papers from a conference held at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Oct. 17-20, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : Being Swedish American in the Twin Cities -- [section] 1. Aspects of urban settlement -- ch. 1. Immigrants and the Twin Cities : melting pot or mosaic? / Rudolph J. Vecoli -- ch. 2. Why Minnesota, why the Twin Cities? / H. Arnold Barton -- ch. 3. Swedish neighborhoods of the Twin Cities : from Swede Hollow to Arlington Hills, from Snoose Boulevard to Minnehaha Parkway / David A. Lanegran -- ch. 4. "Unfortunates" and "city guests" : Swedish American inmates and the Minneapolis City Workhouse, 1907 / Joy K. Lintelman -- ch. 5. Evelina Johansdotter, textile workers, and thee Munsingwear family : class, gender, and ethnicity in the political economy of Minnesota at the end of World War 1 / Lars Olson -- ch. 6 The northern neighbor : Winnipeg, the Swedish service station in the "last best west", 1890-1950 / Lars Ljungmark -- [section] 2. Institutional and creative life -- ch. 7. The Swedish Historical Society of America : the Minnesota years / Byron J. Nordstrom -- ch. 8. Swan Johan Turnblad and the founding of the American Swedish Institute / Nils William Olsson & Lawrence G. Hammerstrom -- ch. 10. Brothers whether dancing or dying : Minneapolis's Norden Society, 1871-198? / William C. Beyer -- ch. 10. Pictures from a new home : Minnesota's Swedish American artists / Mary Towley Swanson -- ch. 11. Performing ethnicity : the role of Swedish theatre in the Twin Cities / Anne-Charlotte Harvey -- ch. 12. Dania Hall : at the center of a Scandinavian American community / David Markle -- [section] 3. The language of immigrant experience -- ch. 13. Forskaren : a Swedish radical voice in Minneapolis, 1894-1924 / Michael Brook -- ch. 14. Svenska Amerikanska Posten : an immigrant newspaper with american accents / Ulf Jonas Björk -- ch. 15. Teaching Swedish in the public schools : cultural persistence in Minneapolis / Anita Olson Gustafson -- ch. 16. American Swedish revisited / Nils [Hasselmo] & Patricia Hasselmo -- ch. 17. Libraries, immigrants, and communities : perspectives on the Swedish immigrant experience in the Twin Cities, 1889-1917 / Kermit B. Westerberg -- [section] 4. Swedes in religion and politics -- ch. 18. As others saw them : Swedes and american religion in the Twin Cities / Mark A. Granquist -- ch. 19. Ethnicity and religion in the Twin Cities : community identity through gospel, music, and education / Scott E. Erickson -- ch. 20. David F. Swenson, evolution, and public education in Minnesota / Philip J. Anderson -- ch. 21. Swedish Americans and the 1918 gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota / Dag Blanck -- ch. 22. Gubernatorial politics and Swedish Americans in Minnesota : the 1970 election and beyond / Bruce L. Larson.

ISBN

0873513991 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00052543^

OCLC

• 45320861
• SCSB-10568584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library