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

ISBN-13: 9780521368223 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 336 str.

Jon Gjerde; Robert Fogel; Stephan Thernstrom

Opis

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.