From peasants to farmers
Subtitle: the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West
By: Jon Gjerde.
Series: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Norwegian Americans -- Middle West -- Economic conditions; Norwegian Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions; Peasantry -- Norway -- Balestrand; Farmers -- Norway -- Balestrand; Balestrand (Norway) -- Economic conditions; Balestrand (Norway) -- Social conditions; Balestrand (Norway) -- Emigration and immigration; Middle West -- Emigration and immigration
Description: This book "examines a transatlantic chain migration from Balestrand, a Norwegian fjord district, to its daughter settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West. The book considers the social and economic conditions in Europe prior to the emigration as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to the American environment."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.