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

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

Jon Gjerde

336 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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' ...

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