Nordic Transatlantic Crossings Emigration, Interaction and Democracy 1825–1945

1. Introduction: Emigration, Interaction and Democracy in a Scandinavian-American Perspective 

Ruth Hemstad and Terje Rasmussen

Part 1: Entanglements: American Society as a Mirror

2. Emigration as Political and Religious Opposition: The Case of Initial Migration from Norway to America, 1817–1837

Henrik Olav Mathiesen

3. Forging America in Scandinavia: Andersson’s Travelogue and The Lehmanns’ Cyclorama of Gold Rush California

Steinar A. Sæther

4. The Women’s Movement: Bremer, Magelssen-Groth and Gripenberg in America

Anna Bohlin

5. Norwegian and Scandinavian Responses on Tocqueville and Beamont’s America 

Terje Rasmussen

6. Representations of Indigenous Peoples and the Construction of Norwegian Identity in America: A Corpus-Based Study

Jana Sverdljuk

7. Transatlantic Burials: The “Resurrection” of Louis Pio, Poul Geleff and Marcus Thrane

Tina Langholm Larsen and Anders Bo Rasmussen

Part 2: Encounters: Negotiating Scandinavia in America

8. Mediating and Activating Politics Across the Atlantic via the Press: The Cases of Den Danske Pioneer of Omaha, Nebraska, and the 1899 “Great Lockout” in Denmark

Jørn Brøndal

9. Historical Narratives as Political Arguments: Leiv Eiriksson as Usable Past in Transatlantic Perspective 

Ruth Hemstad

10. Nation-building, Land and Contact Zones in South Dakota and Finnmark County, Norway, 1900−1910

Terje M.H. Joranger

11. Norwegian and American Voices in the United States, 1933−1945: A Shared Affinity for Democracy

Daron W. Olson

Part 3: Enactments: American resources for Scandinavian modernising

12. Norwegian Georgism 1890−1915

Terje Rasmussen

13. The Interwar Professional Women’s Movement in Scandinavia: “Like fresh wind from across the Atlantic” 

Victoria Ciobanu Austveg and Eirinn Larsen

Biography

Ruth Hemstad is a Historian and Associate Research Professor at the National Library of Norway and Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Norway.

Terje Rasmussen is a Sociologist and Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway.