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Edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Paper, 352 pp.
Studies of Swedish American history and identity have largely been confined to separate disciplines, such as history, literature, or politics. Swedish–American Borderlands, edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, explores an exciting new avenue in Swedish-American and migration history, namely “borderland studies,” which includes a pathbreaking cross-disciplinary examination of the countless aspects of historical and cultural relations 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, featuring specific case studies of topics like jazz, architecture, design, genealogy, and more.
Contributors: Philip J. Anderson, Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Marie Bennedahl, Ulf Jonas Björk, Thomas J. Brown, Margaret E. Farrar, Charlotta Forss, Gunlög Fur, Karen V. Hansen, Angela Hoffman, Adam Kaul, Maaret Koskinen, Merja Kytö, Svea Larson, Franco Minganti, Frida Rosenberg, Magnus Ullén.