From peasants to farmers: the migration from balestrand, norway, to the upper middle west
Auteur :
Gjerde, Jon
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521368223
Date de publication :
27 janv. 1989
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
510 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.