Title: A folk divided
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Ethnic identity, Swedish Americans, History, Swedes, united states, Sweden, history
Places: Sweden