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Auteur(s) : Gustafson, Anita Olson (1961-....)
Titre(s) : Swedish Chicago [Texte imprimé] : the shaping of an immigrant community, 1880-1920 / Anita Olson Gustafson
Publication : DeKalb (Ill.) : NIU Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index
Between 1880 and 1920, emigration from Sweden to Chicago soared, and the city itself
grew remarkably. During this time, the Swedish population in the city shifted from
three centrally located ethnic enclaves to neighborhoods scattered throughout the
city. As Swedes moved to new neighborhoods, the early enclave-based culture adapted
to a progressively more dispersed pattern of Swedish settlement in Chicago and its
suburbs. Swedish community life in the new neighborhoods flourished as immigrants
built a variety of ethnic churches and created meaningful social affiliations, in
the process forging a complex Swedish-American identity that combined their Swedish
heritage with their new urban realities. Chicago influenced these Swedes' lives in
profound ways, determining the types of jobs they would find, the variety of people
they would encounter, and the locations of their neighborhoods. But these immigrants
were creative people, and they in turn shaped their urban experience in ways that
made sense to them. Swedes arriving in Chicago after 1880 benefited from the strong
community created by their predecessors, but they did not hesitate to reshape that
community and build new ethnic institutions to make their urban experience more meaningful
and relevant. They did not leave Chicago untouched--they formed an expanding Swedish
community in the city, making significant portions of Chicago Swedish. This engaging
study will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in immigration and Swedish-American
history
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- Autre forme du titre : Shaping of an immigrant community, 1880-1920
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine suédoise -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Chicago (Ill., États-Unis) -- 1870-1914
Organisation communautaire -- Chicago (Ill., États-Unis) -- 1870-1914
Émigration et immigration -- États-Unis -- 1870-1914
Émigration et immigration -- Suède -- 1870-1914
Indice(s) Dewey :
977.311 04 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Chicago - 1865-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780875807911 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47002030v
Notice n° :
FRBNF47002030
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Table des matières : Swedish immigration to Chicago ; The Swedish immigrant experience in Chicago ;
Church growth in Swedish Chicago ; Vikings, odd fellows, and Templars ; Swedish
nationalism in a new land.
