Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America
Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces
Volume in the series
Publisher:Helsinki University Press
By: Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti
Table of contents
Introduction: Finns and the Settler Colonial Worlds of North America
Claims for Space: Unpacking Finnish Geohistorical Imaginations of the United States
Finnish Americanism and Indigenous Land on Sugar Island, Michigan, 1915–1940
“Some Kind of Eldorado”: Eero Erkko and the Plan for a Finnish Settler Colony in Cuba, 1903–1905
Finnish Utopian Communities, Historiographies, and Shapes of Settler Colonialism
Building a (White) Nation: Finns in James Kirke Paulding’s Koningsmarke, the Long Finne (1823)
Socialist Visions of American Dreams: The Finnish Settler Lives of Oskari Tokoi and Frank Aaltonen
Indigenous and Settler: The North American Sámi Movement
Life Writing as a Settler Colonial Tool: Finnish Migrant-Settlers Claiming Place and Belonging
Finns and the Indigenous People in the Great Lakes Region: Playing with Settler Myths in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Finnish American Fiction
Gustaf Nordenskiöld and the Mesa Verde: Settler Colonial Disconnects and Finnish Colonial Legacies
Afterword: Concurrent Events and Entanglements in a Nordic–American Borderland
12 chapters available
PDF ISBN: 978-952-369-080-6 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-952-369-081-3 | Hardback ISBN: 978-952-369-079-0 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/AHEAD-2
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 316
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