A folk divided
Subtitle: homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940
By: H. Arnold Barton.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Swedish Americans -- Ethnic identity.; Sweden -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Description: In this unique longitudinal study of how a divided people relate to one another, H. Arnold Barton outlines dilemmas created by the great migration of Swedes to the United States from 1840 through 1940 and the complex love-hate relationship that resulted between those who stayed and those who left. During that hundred-year period, one Swede out of five voluntarily immigrated to the United States, and four-fifths of those immigrants remained in their new country.

This study seeks to explore the far-reaching implications of this mass migration for both Swedes and Swedish Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-392) and index.