From Peasants to Farmers The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West |
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| Author:
| Gjerde, Jon |
| Contribution by:
| Fogel, Robert
Thernstrom, Stephan |
| Series title: | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-36822-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1989 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.95 |
Book Description:
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This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.
This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.