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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jørn Brødal. Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914. Northfield, Minn.: Norwegian-American Historical Association; distributed by University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 379. $44.95.

Thirty years ago, with general inspiration from Lee Benson's The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy (1964), historians developed an "ethnocultural" model of voting behavior in the United States in the nineteenth century and found that Scandinavian Americans generally supported Republican candidates. In this book, Jørn Brøndal focuses on the Upper Midwest—especially Wisconsin—and revisits the question of the relationship of ethnicity and politics. In doing so, he engages the Scandinavian immigrant community studies of the past two decades by historians such as Jon Gjerde. Brøndal's work also shares with this more recent scholarship a trans-Atlantic research base in Scandinavian-language archives and periodicals. Brøndal's goal is "to investigate, from the point of view of Scandinavian-American political leaders in Wisconsin, how between 1890 and 1914 a very rough and constructed type of ethnic identity based on Old World national attachments played an important role in the political arena" (pp. 3–4).

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