Dag Blanck
Biographic Data
| ID | 262525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dag Blanck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanck |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Significance of Location
This article deals with the teaching of American history in Sweden. It focuses on developments at Uppsala University where a course in American history has been taught since 1996, as a part of our American studies sequence. Placing it within the larger context of doing American studies in Sweden, it traces the development of the course discusses important topics taught and the challenges of finding suitable reading materials for students enrolled…
Swedish-American Borderlands
Transnationalizing Swedish–American Relations
Introduction to the Special Forum on "Sweden and America," edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén
The Transnational Viking
This article deals with how Vikings have been used as symbols and historical representations in Sweden, the United Sates, and Swedish America during the 19th and 20th centuries.Three usages of the Vikings are isolated. The first is a “Swedish Viking,” which emphasized the role of the Viking and Norse past in Swedish (and Scandinavian) histories as historical antecedents as a part of 19th century nation building. The second is an “American Viking,…
Very Welcome Home Mr. Swanson”
This article examines different patterns of interaction between Swedish Americans and the homeland, and my interest is in the significance and consequences of these encounters. The mass emigration of some 1,3 million Swedes in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a fundamental event in Swedish history, and as a result a separate social and cultural community—Swedish America—was created in the U.S. and a specific population group of Swedish Ameri…
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Book Review| December 01 2016 Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. Pp. 184. Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Uppsala University & Augustana College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2016) 88 (4): 464–466. https://doi.…
Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making
Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration . Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. Pp. 184. In recent years Scandinavian American historiography has been characterized by a number of studies dealing with different kinds of
A Mixture of People with Different Roots
Research Article| April 01 2014 "A Mixture of People with Different Roots": Swedish Immigrants in the American Ethno-Racial Hierarchies Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (3): 37–54. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.3.0037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dag Blanck; "A Mixture of People with Different Roots":…
Scholars across the Seas
The arlicle discusses the academic and cultural relationships be/ween Sweden and the U.S in the early 20'h century.It focuses on !he activiJies of two key institutions, the Sweden-America Foundation in Stockholm and the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York.Both foundations were established in the second decade of rhe 20'" century and sought to promote educarional and rnltural exchanges and contacts be/ween.Sweden and the United State.~.Al…
Transnational Strategies in Higher Education and Cultural Fields
Sweden and the United States occupy very different positions on the transnational market for higher education. Since the middle of the 20 1 h century this market has expanded rapidly, with the U.S. as the dominating country. The new global landscape of higher education has effects on both the national systems of institutions of higher education and on the students taking pa.it in them. In Europe one only has to think of the Bologna Process, which…
Raija Taramaa's Stubborn and Silent Finns with 'Sisu' in Finnish-American Literature
Øyvind T. Gulliksen's Twofold Identities
Lizette Gradén's On Parade
Anti-Americanism in Sweden? A Discussion of Terminology and Examples
The Concept of Being Scandinavian-American
In 1878 O.L. Kirkeberg, a Norwegian-born pastor working primarily among Danish-American congregations, stopped over in Salina, Kansas, on his way to the settlement of Denmark further out west.Asking a local hotelkeeper whether he knew of any Scandinavians in town, the latter answered in the affirmative.Kirkeberg then wanted to know whether there were any Danes among them, or Norwegians, or Swedes?"No," answered the hotel.keeper,"There don't seem …
Becoming Swedish-American
Journal Article Becoming Swedish-American: The Construction of an Ethnic Identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917. By Dag Blanck. (Uppsala, Sweden: University Publications, 1997. 240 pp. Paper, ISBN 91-554-4027-4.) Get access Odd S. Lovoll Odd S. Lovoll St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1605–1606, htt…
David Mauk's 'The Colony that Rose From the Sen
The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga
Journal Article The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga: Methodist Influence on Swedish Religious Life. By Henry C. Whyman. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. xvi, 183 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-8093-1762-1.) Get access Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 265–266, https://doi.o…
Swedish-American Life in Chicago
Journal Article Swedish-American Life in Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850–1930. Ed. by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xii + 394 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-01829-X.) Get access Christiane Harzig Christiane Harzig University of Bremen, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 199…
American National Identity and Race in Immigrant Generations
American Immigrants and Their Generations
J. H. M. Laslett, The International Migration Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, Special Issue: U.N. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Winter, 1991), pp. 962-963
American Immigrants and Their Generations
American immigrants and their generations : : Studies and commentaries on the Hansen thesis after fifty years
American Immigrants and Their Generations
Journal Article American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years. Ed. by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,. 1990. viii + 222 pp. $19.95.) Get access William Toll William Toll Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.…
Reconsidering the Hansen Thesis
A Mixture of People with Different Roots
Research Article| April 01 2014 "A Mixture of People with Different Roots": Swedish Immigrants in the American Ethno-Racial Hierarchies Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (3): 37–54. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.3.0037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dag Blanck; "A Mixture of People with Different Roots":…
Transnationalizing Swedish–American Relations
Introduction to the Special Forum on "Sweden and America," edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén
The Concept of Being Scandinavian-American
In 1878 O.L. Kirkeberg, a Norwegian-born pastor working primarily among Danish-American congregations, stopped over in Salina, Kansas, on his way to the settlement of Denmark further out west.Asking a local hotelkeeper whether he knew of any Scandinavians in town, the latter answered in the affirmative.Kirkeberg then wanted to know whether there were any Danes among them, or Norwegians, or Swedes?"No," answered the hotel.keeper,"There don't seem …
American Immigrants and Their Generations
Journal Article American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years. Ed. by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,. 1990. viii + 222 pp. $19.95.) Get access William Toll William Toll Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.…
American Immigrants and Their Generations
J. H. M. Laslett, The International Migration Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, Special Issue: U.N. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Winter, 1991), pp. 962-963
American Immigrants and Their Generations
American immigrants and their generations : : Studies and commentaries on the Hansen thesis after fifty years
American Immigrants and Their Generations
Journal Article American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years. Ed. by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,. 1990. viii + 222 pp. $19.95.) Get access William Toll William Toll Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.…
Reconsidering the Hansen Thesis
American National Identity and Race in Immigrant Generations
Swedish-American Life in Chicago
Journal Article Swedish-American Life in Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850–1930. Ed. by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xii + 394 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-01829-X.) Get access Christiane Harzig Christiane Harzig University of Bremen, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 199…
The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga
Journal Article The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga: Methodist Influence on Swedish Religious Life. By Henry C. Whyman. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. xvi, 183 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-8093-1762-1.) Get access Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 265–266, https://doi.o…
David Mauk's 'The Colony that Rose From the Sen
Becoming Swedish-American
Journal Article Becoming Swedish-American: The Construction of an Ethnic Identity in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917. By Dag Blanck. (Uppsala, Sweden: University Publications, 1997. 240 pp. Paper, ISBN 91-554-4027-4.) Get access Odd S. Lovoll Odd S. Lovoll St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1605–1606, htt…
The Concept of Being Scandinavian-American
In 1878 O.L. Kirkeberg, a Norwegian-born pastor working primarily among Danish-American congregations, stopped over in Salina, Kansas, on his way to the settlement of Denmark further out west.Asking a local hotelkeeper whether he knew of any Scandinavians in town, the latter answered in the affirmative.Kirkeberg then wanted to know whether there were any Danes among them, or Norwegians, or Swedes?"No," answered the hotel.keeper,"There don't seem …
Anti-Americanism in Sweden? A Discussion of Terminology and Examples
Lizette Gradén's On Parade
Øyvind T. Gulliksen's Twofold Identities
Raija Taramaa's Stubborn and Silent Finns with 'Sisu' in Finnish-American Literature
Scholars across the Seas
The arlicle discusses the academic and cultural relationships be/ween Sweden and the U.S in the early 20'h century.It focuses on !he activiJies of two key institutions, the Sweden-America Foundation in Stockholm and the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York.Both foundations were established in the second decade of rhe 20'" century and sought to promote educarional and rnltural exchanges and contacts be/ween.Sweden and the United State.~.Al…
Transnational Strategies in Higher Education and Cultural Fields
Sweden and the United States occupy very different positions on the transnational market for higher education. Since the middle of the 20 1 h century this market has expanded rapidly, with the U.S. as the dominating country. The new global landscape of higher education has effects on both the national systems of institutions of higher education and on the students taking pa.it in them. In Europe one only has to think of the Bologna Process, which…
A Mixture of People with Different Roots
Research Article| April 01 2014 "A Mixture of People with Different Roots": Swedish Immigrants in the American Ethno-Racial Hierarchies Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (3): 37–54. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.3.0037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dag Blanck; "A Mixture of People with Different Roots":…
Transnationalizing Swedish–American Relations
Introduction to the Special Forum on "Sweden and America," edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén
The Transnational Viking
This article deals with how Vikings have been used as symbols and historical representations in Sweden, the United Sates, and Swedish America during the 19th and 20th centuries.Three usages of the Vikings are isolated. The first is a “Swedish Viking,” which emphasized the role of the Viking and Norse past in Swedish (and Scandinavian) histories as historical antecedents as a part of 19th century nation building. The second is an “American Viking,…
Very Welcome Home Mr. Swanson”
This article examines different patterns of interaction between Swedish Americans and the homeland, and my interest is in the significance and consequences of these encounters. The mass emigration of some 1,3 million Swedes in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a fundamental event in Swedish history, and as a result a separate social and cultural community—Swedish America—was created in the U.S. and a specific population group of Swedish Ameri…
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Book Review| December 01 2016 Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. Pp. 184. Dag Blanck Dag Blanck Uppsala University & Augustana College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2016) 88 (4): 464–466. https://doi.…
Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making
Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration . Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. Pp. 184. In recent years Scandinavian American historiography has been characterized by a number of studies dealing with different kinds of
Swedish-American Borderlands
The Significance of Location
This article deals with the teaching of American history in Sweden. It focuses on developments at Uppsala University where a course in American history has been taught since 1996, as a part of our American studies sequence. Placing it within the larger context of doing American studies in Sweden, it traces the development of the course discusses important topics taught and the challenges of finding suitable reading materials for students enrolled…
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