Keijo Aarre Virtanen, is a Finnish

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 historian

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, PhD

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 1980. In 1970 Virtanen was affiliated with Turku University

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, were he became professor 1990 in cultural history.

Virtanen has focused on the spread of American culture and the cultural exchange between the European and American cultures, which has resulted in a doctors dissertation Settlement or return (1979), were the return of Finnish emigrants from America is studied, and the voluminous study Atlantin yhteys (1988), which concerns the cultural relations over the Atlantic ocean 1776-1917.

Publications

• Amerikkalaisen kulttuurin leviäminen Suomeen (1980, med Esko Heikkonen)
• Uuden maailman jättiläinen (1991, with Reino Kero
  Reino Kero
  Reino Kero , is a Finnish historian, PhD 1974. Kero was professor in general history at Turku University 1999-2002.Kero has focused on the Finnish emigration to North America...
  
  and Auvo Kostiainen)