Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations

Swedish–American Borderlands reconsiders and redefines Swedish-American relations by examining complex cultural, social, and economic exchanges and interactions, focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration. The volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to explore multiple transcultural exchanges, using the concept of borderlands to examine interactions, entanglements, and cross-border relations.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 352 pages
\n Publication date: 03 October 2021
\n Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Studies of Swedish American history and identity have largely been confined to separate disciplines, such as history, literature, or politics. In Swedish American Borderlands, this collection edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén seeks to reconceptualize and redefine the field of Swedish American relations by reviewing more complex cultural, social, and economic exchanges and interactions that take a broader approach to the international relationship—ultimately offering an alternative way of studying the history of transatlantic relations.

Swedish American Borderlands studies connections and contacts between Sweden and the United States from the seventeenth century to today, exploring how movements of people have informed the circulation of knowledge and ideas between the two countries. The volume brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences to investigate multiple transcultural exchanges between Sweden and the United States. Rather than concentrating on one-way processes or specific national contexts, Swedish American Borderlands adopts the concept of borderlands to examine contacts, crossings, and convergences between the nations, featuring specific case studies of topics like jazz, architecture, design, genealogy, and more.

By placing interactions, entanglements, and cross-border relations at the center of the analysis, Swedish American Borderlands seeks to bridge disciplinary divides, joining a diverse set of scholars and scholarship in writing an innovative history of Swedish American relations to produce new understandings of what we perceive as Swedish, American, and Swedish American.

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\n Weight: 516g\n
Dimension: 141 x 214 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781517908584\n \n