Finns in the United States : a history of settlement, dissent, and integration / / edited by Auvo Kostiainen ; contributors Arnold R. Alanen [and eleven others]

• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.894/541073
• Soggetto topico: Finnish Americans - History
• Altri autori: KostiainenAuvo AlanenArnold R (Arnold Robert)
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Part 1. Introduction; Updating and Rethinking the Finnish American Story, Jon Saari; Interest in the History of Finnish Americans, Auvo Kostiainen; Part 2. Colonial Settlement of the Swedes and Finns; The Delaware Colonists and Their Heritage, Auvo Kostiainen; Part 3. Seamen, Masses, and Individual Migrants of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Migration from Finland to North America, Reino Kero; Finnish Settlements in the United States: "Nesting Places" and Finntowns, Arnold R. Alanen ; Ambiguous Identity: Finnish Americans and the Race Question, Peter Kivistoand Johanna LeinonenPart 4. Finnish Communities Organized; Fighting for Temperance Ideas, Paul George Hummasti; Religious Activities of the Finns: An Examination of Finnish Religious Life in Industrialized North America, Gary Kaunonen; Politics of the Left and the Right, Auvo Kostiainen; "Sooner or Later You're a Cooperator": The Finnish American Cooperative Movement, Hannu Heinilä; Part 5. The Multitude of Cultural Life; Finnish Identity in Immigrant Culture, Keijo Virtanen; Papers and Publications, Auvo Kostiainen ; Part 6. Finland's Minority EmigrantsFinland-Swedes in North America, Mika Roinila; Distant Dreams, Different Realities: North American Immigrants Revisit Finland, Erik Hieta; Help among Nations: The Humanitarian Impulse in American-Finnish Relations, Erik Hieta; The Return Migration of Finns from North America, Keijo Virtanen; Deported Finns, Auvo Kostiainen; Part 8. Acculturation and Generations; One Culture, Two Cultures? Families of Finns in the United States in the Twentieth Century, Johanna Leinonen; The Transnational Practices of Finnish Immigrants, Peter Kivisto ; Who Is a "Real" Finn? Negotiating Finnish and Finnish American Identity in the Contemporary United States, Johanna LeinonenPart 9. Turning to Americans; Adjustment and the Future, Mika Roinila; For Further Reference; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Late-arriving immigrants during the Great Migration, Finns were, comparatively speaking, a relatively small immigrant group, with about 350,000 immigrants arriving prior to World War II. Nevertheless, because of their geographic concentration in the Upper Midwest in particular, their impact was pronounced. They differed from many other new immigrant groups in a number of ways, including the fact that theirs is not an Indo-European language, and many old-country cultural and social features reflect their geographic location in Europe, at the juncture of East and West. A fresh and up-to-
• Titolo autorizzato: Finns in the United States
• ISBN: 1-62895-020-X; 1-60917-398-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828480703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II