From peasants to farmers : the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West

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From peasants to farmers : the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West

Jon Gjerde

(Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history)

Cambridge University Press, 1989

1st pbk. ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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