Norwegian-American essays 2017 : freedom and migration in a Norwegian-American context /

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Imprint:	Oslo : Novus Press : NAHA-Norway, 2017. ©2017
Description:	325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English Norwegian
Series:	Det norsk-amerikanske historielaget, Norge, 0809-1366 ; vol. XV Norsk-amerikanske historielaget, avd. Noreg (Series) ; vol. 15.
Subject:	Norwegian Americans -- History. Emigration and immigration. Norwegian Americans. Norway -- Emigration and immigration -- History. Norway. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11806069

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Other authors / contributors:	Joranger, Terje Mikael Hasle, editor. Cleven, Harry T., editor. NAHA-Norway, publisher.
ISBN:	9788270998791 8270998796
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Contributions chiefly in English, with two contributions in Norwegian.
Summary:	"The idea of personal progress and freedom in the United States continued to have a strong impact on Norwegians for the remainder of the nineteenth century. Knowledge about these freedoms was spread through America letters, handbooks, and returned migrants, and this knowledge often was a decisive factor behind the decision to emigrate...Dimensions of freedom are interconnected in this fifteenth volume of Norwegian-American Essays 2017. Its title, Freedom and migration in a Norwegian-American context, is identical to the theme of the conference of the Norwegian-American Historical Association -- Norway which was held at Fagernes, Norway, June 18-21, 2014. The theme reflects the signing of the Norwegian constitution in 1814. Norwegian-American essays 2017 reveals various approaches to the concept of freedom. In addition, all essays share a thematical connection in that they are transnational in content. To a large extent the essays are also comparative as they take into account conditions both in the sending society and the receiving society, which helps to contextualize the theme."--Editor's note.

Table of Contents:

The impact of the US Constitution on the Norwegian Constitution and on emigration to America / Ola Mestad
Norwegians fighting for freedom in America: why the Scandinavians had their own regiment in the Civil War of 1861-65 / Ådne Løvstad
The concept of freedom in theological and political debates in the 1870s / Birger Løvlie
Norske sjømen på rømmen i Nord-Amerika, 1862-1913 / Steffen Sætereie
His mother's song: the ethnolandscapes of Norwegian-American male visitors to Norway during the 1914 Eidsvoll Centennial / Daron W. Olson
Migrant identity in academia: Professor Paul Knaplund (1885-1964), University of Wisconsin / Jarle Simensen
The Norwegian-America ancestry group in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, 1975-2000 / David C. Mauk
Selected stops along the Norwegian highway: Norwegian-American heritage practice in Seattle after 1945 / Lizette Gradén
Amerikanorsk: Orda vitner om kontakt mellom folk / Arnstein Hjelde and Janne Bondi Johannessen
Freedom from and freedom to: Nordic narratives of migration and quests for freedom / Ingeborg Kongslien.

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