NORWAY TO AMERICA. A History of the Migration
Author: Ingrid Semmingsen
Country: Minnesota
Language: English
Year Published: 1978
No. of pages: 213
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 17 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 816610002
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 1853
Price: $21.50
“Semmingsen provides an account of the movement rich in human and illustrative detail...a work of superior quality and merit, presenting in one brief volume a comprehensive treatment of Norwegian migration and settlement that will appeal with equal strength to the critical scholar and the interested layman alike.”--American Historical Review
NORWEGIANS IN WISCONSIN. Revised and Expanded Edition
Author: Fapso, Richard J
Country: Wisconsin
Language: English
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 72
Illustrations: 38 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 870203347
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 4523
Price: $12.50
An intriguing book that explores the causes that impelled migrants to come to the New World, their dangerous Atlantic voyage, and the establishment of Norwegian communities in the America. The challenges of unfamiliar farm machinery, agricultural techniques, language, clothing, and foods also shaped the Norwegian experience in Wisconsin. New to this edition are the selected letters, from mid 1800s, of two adept observers of Norwegian settlers’ early lives here: Ole Munch Raeder, a Norwegian scholar, and Anders Jensen Stortroen, an immigrant farmer.
OBSERVATIONS UPON THE STATE OF NEGRO SLAVERY IN THE ISLAND OF SANTA CRUZ. The Principal of the Danish West India Colonies with Miscellaneous Remarks upon Subjects Related to the West India Question and A Notice of Santa Cruz
Author: Highfield, Arnold R., ed
Country: St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 126
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9166111715
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 3788
Price: $49.50
In the late 1820s, a certain Lieutenant Brady of the British Royal Navy came to visit his brother on the island of St. Croix in the then Danish West Indies. During his previous travels around the West Indies, the question of slavery had left an enduring mark on him. On St. Croix, he lived on a sugar-producing plantation and was surrounded by an enslaved population there. He began to draw correlations between the conditions in the British colonies and those on Danish St. Croix. In response, he created a pamphlet written with two objects in mind which, in his own words, included: the forwarding of the emancipation of the slaves, by the temperate and judicious improvement of their physical and moral condition and, secondly, endeavouring to allay that bitter feeling of hostility, which is too apparent between the colonists and the advocates for emancipation. This edited version of a primary source is essential to any inquiry into the slave trade in the Danish West Indies.
OCCUPIED. Denmark’s Adaptation and Resistance to German Occupation 1940 - 1945
Author: Hong, Nathaniel
Country:
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 374
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 184 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9788788214796
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios.
Code: 6768
Price: $26.00
On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway and occupied them both until the end of World War II. In the beginning, Germany tolerated the continued administration of the country by the Danish government in exchange for law and order and increased Danish exports to support their war effort. Despite the combined efforts of the German and Danish authorities to suppress opposition and resistance to German occupation, a small, determined band of communists and conservative patriots initiated a Resistance movement that grew to a mass movement by the end of the war. Along the way, the Danish Resistance carried out a sabotage campaign against Danish firms working for the Germans, published 26 million copies of illegal newspapers, helped force the cooperative Danish government from office, and assisted 95% of the Jews in Denmark escape to safety in Sweden. Occupied is the first English-language general history of the German Nazi occupation of Denmark to be published in the last 40 years. It is based on a considerable body of new work produced by Danish occupation historians. Illustrated with 186 photos . "Nathaniel Hong's book on Danish occupation history is a balanced and engaging account on both the conspicuous resistance experience and the non-heroic adaptation to the Occupation Power, which in some instances came close to outright collaboration. The book does not beautify or condemn but explains the tension between the two main political lines and its importance for Danish cultural, economic, and social history during the occupation and the postwar development. The book is highly suited for both the general reader and for the organized study of Danish history." Palle Roslyng-Jensen, Senior Lecturer in History, Copenhagen University.
OLD-FASHIONED VIRTUES OF OUR SWEDISH “MUMMA”. Poignant Stories Gleaned from a Swedish-American Yesterday
Author: Arnell, Lucille Lind
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 109
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 30 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 971702578
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5326
Price: $16.50
While many Scandinavian immigrant stories tell about rural life in America, this is a story of the faith and courage of a mother of nine children born in Lake View, one of Chicago’s Swedish communities. Alida and Olof Lind raised their children to be committed Americans. Alida’s strength of character and clear faith led her through deep poverty in the Depression years and overwhelming grief from the deaths of three of her children.