Olson, Daron.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-263) and index.
• Introduction : Mythmaking and identity — Creating home : the roots of Norwegian emigration — Belonging to the nation : origin myths and the argument to be American, 1860/1890 — Modern Vikings : the challenge to Anglo-American superiority, 1890/1917 — Backlash : xenophobia and the pressure to assimilate, 1917/1929 — A shared homeland : celebrating Norwegian identity across the Atlantic, 1929/1945 — Conclusion : Building a greater Norway.
• In Vikings across the Atlantic, Daron W. Olson reveals how the vision of a Greater Norway expanded the boundaries of the Norwegian nation. He depicts Norway as a larger community in which membership is constructed or imagined, a status of belonging defined not by physical proximity but through qualities such as culture and shared traditions. –Publisher’s website.

Subjects:

• Norwegian Americans — History.
• Norwegian Americans — Ethnic identity.
• Norwegians — United States.
• Norway — Emigration and immigration.

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