America in the Forties

The Letters of Ole Munch Ræder

Gunnar Malmin

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1929
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452938080
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

America in the Forties: Letters of Ole Munch Ræder was first published in 1929. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.These lively, well-informed letters with their shrewd comment on the American scene are an important addition to Americana. Between De Tocqueville and Bryce there were few more competently trained observers than the author, Munch Ræder, a distinguished Norwegian jurist sent by his government in 1847 to study American legal institutions.Ræder traveled widely and wrote home to a Christiania newspaper his observations on many topics: American politics and social customs, the working of the “melting pot,” slavery, westward expansion, transportation, Chicago with a budding reputation as a tough town, New York where hogs on the open streets had been forbidden. Not without interest is the reaction of the United States to the European revolution of 1848 and Munch Ræder’s own dream of a Pan-Scandinavian Union.Dr. Gunnar J. Malmin has supplied an excellent translation of the necessary notes. Through the aid of descendants of Munch Ræder, he has added letters not published in the original Christiana journal.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I. FROM NEW YORK TO THE GREAT LAKES
• CHAPTER II. MILWAUKEE AND MUSKEGO
• CHAPTER III. THE NORWEGIANS AND AMERICAN POLITICS
• CHAPTER IV. POLITICS AND LANGUAGE IN THE WEST
• CHAPTER V. THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE TOWARD NEWCOMERS
• CHAPTER VI. RELIGIOUS WORK AMONG THE NORWEGIANS
• CHAPTER VII. RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
• CHAPTER VIII. THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE IMMIGRANT
• CHAPTER IX. FRONTIER AGRICULTURE
• CHAPTER X. AMERICAN CUSTOMS
• CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
• CHAPTER XII. THE GOVERNMENT OF WISCONSIN
• CHAPTER XIII. A ClRCUIT-TOUR WITH A FEDERAL JUDGE
• CHAPTER XIV. ON A MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT
• CHAPTER XV. THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
• CHAPTER XVI. FRONTIER COMMUNITIES IN WISCONSIN
• CHAPTER XVII. THE AMERICAN INDIANS
• CHAPTER XVIII. SOCIAL LIFE ON THE FRONTIER
• CHAPTER XIX. A WINTER JOURNEY THROUGH THE ALLEGHENIES
• CHAPTER XX. EUROPEAN ECHOES IN NEW YORK
• CHAPTER XXI. THE AMERICANS AND EUROPE
• CHAPTER XXII. FROM THE PAGES OF A NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
• CHAPTER XXIII. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN NORWAY
• CHAPTER XXIV. PAN-SCANDINAVIANISM: A PROPOSED FEDERATION
• CHAPTER XXV. PAN-SCANDINAVIANISM: THE KING'S POSITION
• CHAPTER XXVI. PAN-SCANDINAVIANISM: DIFFICULTIES
• CHAPTER XXVII. ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE
• INDEX