num_pages: 372
description: Marcus Lee Hansen Immigration Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 29-July 1, 1992Marcus Lee Hansen. Letters ; Marcus Lee Hansen on native and immigrant farmers in the American Middle West / Jon Gjerde -- The old world and the new. Transatlantic steerage conditions, 1819-1920 / Maldwyn A. Jones ; The Danish Thingvalla Line in the Nordic competition for emigration traffic / Odd S. Lovell ; A scattered people? Danish settlement structure and community transplantations in the Midwest / Steffen Elmer Jørgensen ; The longest voyage of the Vikings, New Zealand / Olavi Koivukangas ; The early Danish-Australian connection / Jørgen E. Møller ; Living where the world ends: Danish settlements in the Argentine Pampa / Maria Bjerg -- Immigrant interaction abroad. The lure of prosperity: economic development among Danish immigrants to Iowa / Jette Mackintosh ; The Scandinavian immigrant experience in the Pacific Northwest: what can we learn from immigrant sport activity? / Jørgen Dahlie ; The public profession of ethnicity: Swedish and French-Canadian strategies in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1880-1930 / John F. McClymer ; A Nordic melting pot or unmelting pot in North America / Harald Runblom ; Dutch migrants and the image of the United States, 1880-1914 / Annemieke Galema ; Ethnic features of statistical investigations in countries with Polish immigrant communities / Andrzej Brozek -- Scandinavians in North America. Differences in cultural assimilation in similar Danish immigrant communities: Grundtvigians and Inner Mission supporters / Henrik Bredmose Simonsen ; Lutheranism among the Danish immigrants in America / Thorvald Hansen ; Mormon influence on Scandinavian settlement in Nebraska / Edith Matteson, Jean Matteson ; Chicago Danes in 1870: a demographic study / George R. Nielsen ; The Hansen-Mengers Collection: eleven thousand letters ... 1880s to the 1970s / John Mark Nielsen ; Some conclusions from the Norwegian returned emigrants project / Knut Djupedal ; Peter Sørensen Vig, Danish-American historian / Peter L. Petersen, John Mark Nielsen ; Letter to America: the emigrant letter as a stimulus to emigration / Niels Peter Stilling.
title: On distant shores: proceedings of the Marcus Lee Hansen Immigration Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 29 - July 1, 1992
titlecomplete: On distant shores: proceedings of the Marcus Lee Hansen Immigration Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 29 - July 1, 1992
publisher: Danes Worldwide Archives