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Book The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware

Download or read book The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware written by Amandus Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Sweden in America

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  • Author : Carol E. Hoffecker
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780874135206
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book New Sweden in America written by Carol E. Hoffecker and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although it was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley, the New Sweden colony has long been ignored by American colonial historians. To right this omission, and to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony, the University of Delaware sponsored an international conference, "New Sweden in America: Scandinavian Pioneers and Their Legacy" in March of 1988. This event brought together twenty-eight scholars from Sweden, Finland, and the United States who represented several fields, including history, anthropology, and geography. The conference papers, collected in New Sweden in America, present the first look at the New Sweden colony since the advent of modern historical methods." "The essays in this volume examine the economic and social lives of a political entity, as well as its political structures. The topics discussed include an examination of the European environment from which the colonial venture came, the colonists' relations with the Native Americans, and the Swedish and Finnish settlers' adaptation to colonial life. The essays depict seventeenth-century Sweden as it emerged from its traditional ways and isolation into the dynamic world of Western European international politics and trade, and the failed attempts to bring European mercantilist policies to New Sweden." "The fascinating stories of the trade between the Swedish and Dutch settlers and the Susquehannock and Lenni Lenape Indians, the development of pidgin languages to facilitate the trade, the devout Lutheran religious observations of the colonists, and the introduction of Finnish construction methods (especially the log cabin) are all described in this volume. To encourage further scholarship in this field, the contributors identify topics for future study and delineate where original colonial documents may be found on both sides of the Atlantic."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware

Download or read book Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware written by Jehu Curtis Clay and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cross border Commemorations

Download or read book Cross border Commemorations written by Adam Hjorthen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The histories of colonial settlement in America are generally presented as uniquely national stories. Yet because these histories involved settlers who crossed oceans, they are inherently transnational and have been important for different groups throughout the world. To understand how settlement histories are used to promote social, political, and commercial relations across national borders, Adam Hjorth n explores the little-known phenomenon of cross-border commemorations. Focusing on two celebrations of Swedish settlement in America -- the 1938 New Sweden Tercentenary and the 1948 Swedish Pioneer Centennial -- Hjorth n examines a wide variety of sources to demonstrate how cultural leaders, politicians, and businessmen used these events to promote international relations between the United States and Sweden during times of great geopolitical transformation. Cross-Border Commemorations argues that scholarship on public commemoration should expand beyond national borders and engage the shared and contested meanings of history across local, national, and transnational contexts.

Book Observance of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the First Permanent Settlement in the Delaware River Valley  1938

Download or read book Observance of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the First Permanent Settlement in the Delaware River Valley 1938 written by United States. Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission, created and authorized by Public Resolution No. 102, Seventy-fourth Congress (approved June 5, 1936), as amended by Public Resolution No. 71, Seventy-fifth Congress (approved August 25, 1937), to prepare and carry through a program to celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first permanent settlement by white men in the Delaware River Valley, namely, the settlement established by the New Sweden Company on March 29, 1638, and named Fort Christina, on the site of present-day Wilmington, Del.

Book New Sweden Historical Exhibit  1638 1938

Download or read book New Sweden Historical Exhibit 1638 1938 written by American Swedish Historical Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Higher Education

Download or read book Transforming Higher Education written by M. Kogan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the implications of studies of Sweden, Norway and England in a set of comparative analyses, the authors assess the reforms of the higher education systems on three distinct levels, the state, the institution and the individual. The book examines changes in government policy, in the leadership and management of higher education institutions and the impact on academic identities and the academic profession.

Book American Swedish Historical Museum  Yearbook 1948

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Museum Yearbook 1948 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Swedish Historical Museum  Yearbook 1945

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Museum Yearbook 1945 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Faces of New Sweden

Download or read book The Faces of New Sweden written by Hans Ling and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This writing explores the lives of the famed New Sweden pastor, Erik Bjork, and his wife, Christina Stalcop, through two portraits by Gustavus Hesselius and the journey these paintings made from America to Sweden and back to America.

Book Making Cultural History

Download or read book Making Cultural History written by Anna Kallen and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media studies. Making Cultural History has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary research program focusing on interplays between past and present. The authors of this volume display a kaleidoscope of innovative approaches to traditional academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric remains, television, and historic monuments. The perspectives focus on obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centers of traditional academic knowledge and create an understanding that all narratives, representations, and claims of culture and history are in some sense political. Challenging, disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history.

Book Conceptions of National History

Download or read book Conceptions of National History written by Erik Lönnroth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Axial Civilizations And World History

Download or read book Axial Civilizations And World History written by J©đhann P©Łll © rnason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by social theorists, historical sociologists and area specialists in classical, biblical and Asian studies. The contributions deal with cultural transformations in major civilizational centres during the "Axial Age," the middle centuries of the last millennium BCE, and their long-term consequences.

Book Swedish Heritage of Greater Worcester

Download or read book Swedish Heritage of Greater Worcester written by Eric J. Salomonsson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1900, Worcester was home to the largest Swedish population in the eastern United States. These new residents brought an innovative and unique spirit to the community. Industrialist John Jeppson invented an artificial emery stone, and his experiments in the abrasives field became the foundation of the Norton Company. Worcester welcomed Swedish immigrants who preserved traditions through various lodges, church congregations and Swedish-owned businesses like Holstrom's Market, Lundborg's and Crown Bakery. Fairlawn Hospital and the Lutheran Home were other mainstays that marked the Swedes' local presence. Author Eric J. Salomonsson explores how Worcester's Swedish immigrants became Swedish-Americans while making vital and vibrant contributions to their adopted city.

Book Old Age in Sweden

Download or read book Old Age in Sweden written by Helen Fisher Hohman and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress  from 1897 Through December 1955

Download or read book Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress from 1897 Through December 1955 written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by Washington : Library of Congress, Processing Department, Subject Cataloging Division. This book was released on 1957 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: