Interpreting the Promise of America

by Lovoll, Odd Sverre; Nichol, Todd W.; Norwegian-American Historical Association

• ISBN13: 9780877320937
• ISBN10: 0877320934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Norwegian Amer Historical Assn

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Odd Sverre Lovoll as Historian	3	(10)
Rudolph J. Vecoli
Boundaries and Linkages: Norwegian Immigrants, the United States, and Norway	13	(18)
Jon Gjerde
Interdisciplinary Approaches in American Immigration Studies: Possibilities and Pitfalls	31	(22)
Øyvind T. Gulliksen
Fram, Fram, Cristmenn, Crossmenn! The Battle of Stiklastaoir beyond the Sagas	53	(8)
Jan Ragnar Hagland
Swedish Americans and the Viking Discovery of America	61	(18)
H. Arnold Barton
Letters as Links in the Chain of Migration from Hedalen, Norway to Dane County, Wisconsin, 1857-1890	79	(26)
Orm Øverland
America as Symbol in the Plays of Marcus Thrane	105	(14)
Terje I. Leiren
Traveling on His Trade: Martin Tranmael's Stay in the United States and the Radicalization of the Norwegian Labor Movement	119	(18)
Jorunn Bjørgum
The Story of the Bergsten Brothers in Canada: Ethnic Barriers, Unfavorable Sex Ratios, and the Creation of Male Households	137	(12)
Sune Akerman
American, Norwegian, or North Norwegian? Dilemmas of Identity for Immigrants from Northern Norway in the United States, 1900-1930	149	(26)
Einar Niemi
Reading Norwegian-American Cookbooks: A Case Study	175	(18)
Deborah L. Miller
Landstad in America	193	(18)
Todd W. Nichol
A Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Odd Sverre Lovoll	211	(8)
The Authors	219