Nordics in America: The Future of Their Past

Northfield, MN: The Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Putty-colored linen with blue titles on front board and spine, xii, 228 pp, notes. Papers presented at a symposium inaugurating the King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Contents: in defense of multiculturalism, by John Bodnar; the founding of St. Olaf's school, by Joseph M. Shaw; Swedish-American "college mania" in the nineteenth century, by Philip J. Anderson; tracing threads: N. F. S. Grundtvig, the Danish folk high school movement, and the elderhostel experience, by John Mark Nielsen; training for the class struggle: Finnish immigrants and workers' education, 1899 to World War II, by A. William Hoglund; myth, history, and the Norwegian-American Historical Association, by J. R. Christianson; interpreting the Finnish-American experience, by Peter J. Kivisto; Swedish America: changing perceptions, by Byron J. Nordstrom; collecting and preserving the Danish-American story, by John Mark Nielsen and Peter L. Petersen; "the psychology is the action": Ole Rølvaag's interpretation of immigrant life, by Kristoffer F. Paulson; images of America in Vilhelm Moberg's soldat med brutet gevär, by Rochelle Wright; as they tell it themselves: the testimony of immigrant letters, by H. Arnold Barton; the wint(h)er of our discontent: a Danish-American tale, by Faith C. Ingwersen; Norwegian-American painting in the context of the immigrant community and American art, by Marion John Nelson; vignettes from a Norwegian settlement, by Lloyd Hustvedt; the story told in Denmark letters: correspondence from the old country, by Rudolf J. Jensen; a chair in Scandinavian-American studies, by Odd S. Lovoll; contributors. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . New/No dj, as issued. 23½ X 16 cm.