From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

by Jon Gjerde

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780521368223
  • Publish Date 27 January 1989 (first published 29 March 1985)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cambridge University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 336
  • Language English