Sökning: "Swedish Americans"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish Americans.
1. Becoming Swedish-American : The construction of an ethnic identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the construction of an ethnic identity in the Swedish-American community around the turn of the century 1900. It takes its starting points in discussions of the nature of ethnic identity, the role of ethnic leadership, and the process of nation-building and nationalism in 19th-century Europe and America. LÄS MER
2. Border-Crossing Commemorations : Entangled Histories of Swedish Settling in America
Sammanfattning : Different groups from both sides of the Atlantic have since the 1930s come together to commemorate histories of Swedish settling in America. They have celebrated the founding of the New Sweden colony in the Delaware Valley (1638–1655), and the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Swedish pioneers in the Mississippi Valley. LÄS MER
3. Svensk-amerikaner i Kalifornien: En studie av lågaktiv etnicitet
Sammanfattning : What does it mean to be a Swedish American?", is the major question addressed in this dissertation. This is divided into several more manageable questions, e.g., how Swedish-Americans express their ethnic identity, and how they are affected by ethnic constructions made in Swedish-American organizations. LÄS MER
4. Railroading and Labor Migration : Class and Ethnicity in Expanding Capitalism in Northern Minnesote, the 1880s to the mid 1920s
Sammanfattning : In the 1880s, capitalism as a social and economic system integrated new geographic areas of the American continent. The construction of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (D&IR), financed by a group of Philadelphia investors led by Charlemagne Tower and later owned by the US Steel was part of this emerging political economy based on the exploitation of human and material resources. LÄS MER
5. Nelly Hall: uppburen och ifrågasatt : Predikant och missionär i Europa och USA 1882-1901
Sammanfattning : In 19th century Sweden women preached in the popular revival movements as they did in the other Nordic countries, in Great Britain and the United States. One of the most famous preachers in Sweden was Nelly Hall (1848–1916). LÄS MER
