Author : Byron J. Nordstrom
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313312583
A history of Sweden, showing how a monarchical state transformed itself into an egalitarian, democratic system.
Author : Lars T. Larsson
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1912174448
“For those interested in the fighting on the Eastern Front in general . . . give[s] us some of the vast scale of the SS by the end of the war.” —HistoryOfWar.org Though Sweden was neutral during the Second World War, Swedish SS volunteers saw action on both the eastern front and NW Europe, and participated in some of the bloodiest clashes: the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa, the winter of 1941–42, the battles of Kursk, Arnhem, Normandy, Narva, the Warsaw uprising, the Cherkassy and Kurland pockets and, finally, the end in Berlin. There was never an official recruitment drive in Sweden, which is why only some 180–200 men enlisted. Those who wanted to recruit themselves often had to make their way to the occupied countries—a fact that makes those Swedes who joined the SS volunteers in the truest sense. This book lets us follow individuals such as Hans Lindén, who was the first named Swedish volunteer to fall in action aged barely nineteen years old; the unpopular Swedish SS officer Gunnar Eklöf; Elis Höglund, who after several years on the Eastern Front deserted and returned to Sweden; Gösta Borg, who volunteered for the SS a second time as he was denied the chance of becoming an officer in Sweden; and Karl-Axel Bodin, the only Swede to be included in the list of suspected criminals at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who joined the SD in March, 1945. The book includes over 150 photos and is thoroughly researched from primary sources, making it a valuable addition to the history of the SS, and the men who volunteered to serve in it.
Author : Carl Grimberg
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1935-12-12
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Translated by the American teacher C.W. Foss
Author : Anne Gillespie Lewis
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517539
A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.
Author : Franklin Daniel Scott
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809314898
Traces the development of Sweden from a poor, backward, warrior nation to a prosperous modern one.
Author : Anita Olson Gustafson
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1501757628
Author : Lars Ljungmark
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809320479
"America fever" gripped Sweden in the middle of the nineteenth century, seethed to a peak in 1910, when one-fifth of the world’s Swedes lived in America, cooled during World War I, and chilled to dead ash with the advent of the Great Depression in 1930. Swedish Exodus, the first English translation and revision of Lars Ljungmark’s Den Stora Utvandringen, recounts more than a century of Swedish emigration, concentrating on such questions as who came to America, how the character of the emigrants changed with each new wave of emigration, what these people did when they reached their adopted country, and how they gradually became Americanized. Ljungmark’s essential challenge was to capture in a factual account the broad sweep of emigration history. But often he narrows his focus to look closely at those who took part in this mass migration. Through historical records and personal letters, Ljungmark brings many of these people back to life. One young woman, for example, loved her parents, but loved America more: "I never expect to speak to you in this life. . . . Your loving daughter unto death." Like most immigrants, she never expected to return. Another immigrant wrote back seeking a wife: "I wonder how you have it and if you are living. . . . Are you married or unmarried? If you are unmarried, you can have a good home with me." Ljungmark also focuses closely on some of the leaders: Peter Cassel, a liberal temperance supporter and free-church leader whose community in America prospered; Hans Mattson, a colonel in the Civil War and founder of a colony in Minnesota; Erik Jansson, a book burner, self-proclaimed messiah, and founder of the Bishop Hill Colony; Gustaf Unonius, a student idealist and founder of a Wisconsin colony that faltered. The story of Swedish immigrants in the United States is the story in miniature of the greatest mass migration in human history, that of thirty-five million Europeans who left their homes to come to America. It is a human story of interest not only to Swedes but to everyone.
Author : Rebecca J. Mead
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1609173236
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of Swedish immigrants came to Michigan seeking new opportunities in the United States and relief from economic, religious, or political problems at home. In addition to establishing early farming communities, Swedish immigrants worked on railroad construction, mining, fishing, logging, and urban manufacturing. As a result, Swedish Americans made significant contributions to the economic and cultural landscape of Michigan, a history this book explores in engaging and illustrative depth. Swedes in Michigan traces the evolution of hard-working people who valued education and assimilated actively while simultaneously maintaining their cultural ties and institutions. Moving from past to present, the book examines community patterns, family connections, social organizations, exchange programs, ethnic celebrations, and business and technical achievements that have helped Swedes in Michigan maintain a sense of their heritage even as they have adapted to American life.
Author : David A. Anderson and Ann Baudin Stuller on behalf of the Board of Directors of Swedish Roots in Oregon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1467105732
Ever since the first Swedish-born immigrants to Oregon began settling in the 1850s, Swedes have had a big impact on its development. Among the first immigrants was shoemaker Carl M. Wiberg, who arrived in the summer of 1852 and settled in Portland. By 1930, roughly 45 percent of all Swedish immigrants were living in the Portland metro area. Other areas of Swedish settlement included Astoria, Coos Bay, Tillamook, southwestern Oregon, and Morrow County. At first, the Swedish language was the unifying force among the immigrants. Today, it is the celebration and sharing of Swedish traditions and culture. There are many reasons why Swedes were attracted to the United States, including religious freedom, better economic conditions, and, for young men, escaping compulsory military service. Many immigrant Swedes did not come directly to Oregon but were attracted to the state and its employment opportunities after the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113467595X
This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfar
