Bøger af Sigmund Skard

Inaugural Lecture Of The Professor Of Literature, Especially American, At The Founding Of The American Institute, University Of Oslo.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

?The author, one of Norway's outstanding scholars, ... focuses on Norwegian-American relations, surveying cultural, historical, and other contacts--such as the impact of emigration and immigration--from the 18th century to the present....Skard concludes by raising some important questions about the values of the middle class in this country, the future of our democracy, and our leadership role in relation to Norway as well as to the developing nations.?-Library Journal