Sökning: "Chicago"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Chicago.

  1. 1. Swedes in Chicago : a demographic and social study of the 1846-1880 immigration

    Författare :Ulf Beijbom; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  3. 2. Weaving the ethnic fabric : social networks among Swedish-American radicals in Chicago 1890-1940

    Författare :Per Nordahl; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnicity; class; labor movement; immigrant radicalism; social networks; international migration; Svenskamerikaner; historia; Förenta Staterna; Chicago; 1890-1940; Arbetarrörelsen;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with how a segment of the Swedish immigrant group mobilized to be included in American society. Three Swedish-American working class organizations have been studied as to how they interacted to promote their interests in Chicago and the Lake View district during the first decades of this century. LÄS MER

  4. 3. American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago

    Författare :Garbi Schmidt; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; institution; authority; globalization; migration; objectification; Chicago; Íslam; United States; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : Sunni Muslims have immigrated to and lived in Chicago for more than a hundred years. In her book Schmidt seeks, on basis of two periods of extended fieldwork, to provide a description of some activist strata of these religious communities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. D. L. Moody and Swedes : Shaping Evangelical Identity among Swedish Mission Friends 1867–1899

    Författare :David M. Gustafson; Kjell O. Lejon; Runar Eldebo; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moody; Dwight; Swedes; Swedish; Mission; Friends; American; revivalism; free; Covenant; church; immigration; evangelical; identity; Chicago; ethnic; Alliance; Franson; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The American Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) was the most famous revivalist of the late 1800s and exercised a wide and lasting influence on the Protestant world, reaching Swedes in Sweden and America. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Aesthetic Experiences of Presence : Case Studies in Film Exhibition, 1896-1898

    Författare :Gert Jan Harkema; Jan Olsson; John Fullerton; Tom Gunning; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film history; media history; early cinema; film experience; 19th century; aesthetics; presence; intermediality; phenomenology; the Netherlands; Chicago; modernity; fairground; vaudeville; Aladdin; Henri Grünkorn; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates viewing experiences that came with the introduction of cinema. Merging (film) history with aesthetic theory, this dissertation entails historically informed theoretical reconstructions of viewing experiences between 1896 and 1898. LÄS MER