1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452091503321

Autore

Attebery Jennifer Eastman <1951->

Titolo

Up in the Rocky Mountains [[electronic resource] ] : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / / Jennifer Eastman Attebery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5420-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

978.004397

Soggetti

Swedish Americans - West (U.S.)

Swedish Americans - Rocky Mountains Region

Immigrants - West (U.S.)

Immigrants - Rocky Mountains Region

Letter writing - West (U.S.) - History

Letter writing - Rocky Mountains Region - History

American letters - West (U.S.)

American letters - Rocky Mountains Region

Electronic books.

West (U.S.) Social life and customs

Rocky Mountains Region Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- A note on translations -- Preface : expanding Swedish America westward -- Vernacular writing : letter writing as a folk practice -- "Thanks for the letter" : the shape of the genre -- "Here are many Swedes" : nodes and networks of Swedish settlement in the Rockies -- "I work every day" : becoming American workers -- "I am sending money" : old country and new -- "Out West" : identifying with a new region -- "God's good gift" : religious language in the Rocky Mountain letters -- Identity, genre, meaning : what we learn from reading vernacular letters -- Appendix : the letter writers and twenty letters.

Sommario/riassunto

Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish



immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00035619

Autore

Pagani, Carlo Domenico

Titolo

Volume 2 / Carlo Domenico Pagani, Sandro Salsa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Masson, 1993

ISBN

88-214-0079-4

Descrizione fisica

XI, 596 p. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Salsa, Sandro

Soggetti

26-XX - Real functions [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia