| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck, editors. Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, in association with the Swedish-American Historical Society, Chicago. 2001. Pp. x, 367. $34.95.

Editors Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck argue that "the Twin Cities is the metropolitan area that today exhibits the highest degree of Swedish American visibility or consciousness, where a sense of Swedishness still prevails" (p. 6). While more Swedish Americans lived in Chicago and most Minnesota Swedes lived in rural communities, this volume justifies and analyzes the Twin Cities' identity as the "most Swedish" of all American cities. The book presents twenty-two essays from the "Swedish Life in the Twin Cities" conference hosted by the Minnesota History Center in 1996. The editors have organized the essays into four groups that highlight initial settlement and community formation, institutional and creative development, language as cultural expression, and religion and politics. About half of the authors are professional historians, and the other contributors represent a blend of cultural perspectives grounded in religious history, libraries and literary societies, ethnic organizations, and the arts. The essays embrace Scandinavian-American history in the Twin Cities, extending to Danes and Norwegians as well as Swedes. They favor Minneapolis, but St. Paul's "Swede Hollow" receives some attention. The result is a diverse set of original essays that present a diffuse and often haphazard mosaic, with some overlap, in their coverage of immigrant life in the Twin Cities.

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