Ethnic Leadership And Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans And The Progressvie Movement In Wisconsin, 1890-1914 - Rilegato

Brondal, Jorn

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ISBN 10: 0877320950 ISBN 13: 9780877320951

Casa editrice: Norwegian Amer Historical Assn, 2004

Riassunto

If historians were once preoccupied with politics, they are no more. In the past century history has embraced the whole range of human activity. Yet historians cannot, or at least ought not, avoid politics. Aristotle was right: humans are by nature political beings and politics is naturally an essential human activity. Whatever else history must do, then, it needs always to take politics into account.
The Norwegian-American Historical Association is therefore pleased to publish Jorn Brondal's study of Scandinavian-Americans in politics. His book is noteworthy for its emphasis on the role played in American politics by cohorts of ethnic leaders. It is also an able contribution to an undeveloped field, the comparative study of Scandinavian ethnic groups in the United States. In these respects his work complements other studies, including a number published by the Association itself, that have emphasized popular involvement in Norwegian-American politics or the careers in politics of single individuals.

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L'autore:

Jorn Brondal is Associate Professor in American History at the University of Southern Denmark.

Product Description:

Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics investigates the notion of ethnic identity as it relates to Scandinavian Americans and political affiliations in Wisconsin, from 1890_1914. Jorn Brondal traces the evolution of their political alliances as they move from an early patronage system to one of a more enlightened social awareness, prompted by the Wisconsin Progressives led by Robert M. La Follette. Brondal's exceptionally thorough research and cogent arguments combine to explain the workings of a political system that accorded nationality a major role in politics at the expense of real political, social, and economic issues in the early 1890s, and how (and why) the Progressives determined to change that system. Brondal explains the change by looking at several important Scandinavian-American institutions, including the church, mutual aid fraternities, the temperance movement, the Scandinavian-language press, political clubs, and labor and farmer organizations, showing how these institutions impacted the construction of a nascent sense of Scandinavian American national identity and made a lasting mark on the Scandinavian-American role in politics. Jorn Brondal teaches history at the University of Southern Denmark. Distributed for the Norwegian-American Historical Association

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• Editore: Norwegian Amer Historical Assn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0877320950
• ISBN 13: 9780877320951
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 392