Blanck, Dag

Uppsala; Historiska instutionen vid Uppsala universitet, 1997. (Studia Historica Upsaliensia 182). Diss. 22,5x16 cm. 240, (5, 3 blank) pp. Original printed wrappers with printed dustjacket. The jacket is slightly chipped at head of spine. Inscribed by the author in Swedish: ""Kära Eva! / Äntligen färdig! / Med stort tack för all hjälp! / Dag"". ""More than a million Swedes migrated to the United States in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries, and by the turn of the century a Swedish-American cultural community had developed. The issue of identity was central to all immigrant and ethnic groups in America. One important question for the Swedish immigrants and their children was the meaning of being Swedish-American. This study explores the construction of a Swedish-American identity within the Augustana Synode, the leading Swedish-American organization. The nature and contents of this identity are traced at Augustana College, which was the leading Swedish-American institution of higher learning; at the Augustana Book Concern, the largest Swedish-American publishing house; and through the fashioning of a Swedish-American history."" (rear wrapper). From the library of Eva Österberg, Swedish Professor of History.