From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

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.

Author: Jon Gjerde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/27/1989
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.24w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780521368223

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