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The Old Country and the New
"In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher.
Growing Up in Sweden
Lilly Setterdahl\\\'s childhood story is an account of her family\\\'s life in neutral Sweden of World War II, where the threat of war hovered across their borders with Norway, Finland, and across the straits in Denmark.
Song Lyrics and Literary History
Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung. The Swedish song 'Vårvindar friska' (Fresh Spring Breezes) started its public life in 1828 between the covers of a book, as a poem written to a traditional melody. Since then, it has been reprinted, translated, performed, and used in the most surprising contexts, in different corners of the world. This particular case may be rather exceptional, but Gunilla Hermansson argues that the underlying dynamics are not – and yet they have been underexposed in studies of literary history. This exploratio...
America's Communal Utopias
From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based...
Titanic Sailing Again: An Epic Novel
The adventures and love stories of two Titanic survivors and their descendants up to the 2018 maiden voyage of the newly-built Titanic Princess sailing from Jiangsu, China, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Southampton, England, and New York.
Documenting America's Swedish Immigrants
Documenting America's Swedish Immigrants: Lennart Setterdahl's Life and Work, 1959-1995 is an updated, abbreviated version in English of a book written in Swedish by the same author, I Emigranternas Spår: Människor vi Mött, published in Sweden in 2002. Both books contain genealogical information obtained from the interviewees.
The Researcher
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Infrastructure and Services
Provides a consolidated history of U.S. business and a guide to a plethora of information sources, indicating what is useful and what is not.
