num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West
titlecomplete: From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
genres: History
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Cambridge University Press