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From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
Jon Gjerde
From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
Jon Gjerde
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.
336 pages, Ill.13figs.55tabs.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 27, 1989 |
ISBN13 | 9780521368223 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 510 g |
Series Editor | Fogel, Robert |
Series Editor | Thernstrom, Stephan |