Nordic Transatlantic Crossings

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.

• 1. Introduction: Emigration, Interaction and Democracy in a Scandinavian-American Perspective 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 3. Forging America in Scandinavia: Andersson’s Travelogue and The Lehmanns’ Cyclorama of Gold Rush California 4. The Women’s Movement: Bremer, Magelssen-Groth and Gripenberg in America 5. Norwegian and Scandinavian Responses on Tocqueville and Beamont’s America 6. Representations of Indigenous Peoples and the Construction of Norwegian Identity in America: A Corpus-Based Study 7. Transatlantic Burials: The “Resurrection” of Louis Pio, Poul Geleff and Marcus Thrane 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 9. Historical Narratives as Political Arguments: Leiv Eiriksson as Usable Past in Transatlantic Perspective 10. Nation-building, Land and Contact Zones in South Dakota and Finnmark County, Norway, 1900−1910 11. Norwegian and American Voices in the United States, 1933−1945: A Shared Affinity for Democracy Part 3: Enactments: American resources for Scandinavian modernising 12. Norwegian Georgism 1890−1915 13. The Interwar Professional Women’s Movement in Scandinavia: “Like fresh wind from across the Atlantic”