Title: From Peasants to Farmers
First published: 1985
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.
Subjects: Farmers, Peasants, Emigration and immigration, Economic conditions, Norwegian Americans, Social conditions, Peasantry, Foreign population, Norway, economic conditions, Peasants, norway, Middle west, Norwegians, united states, Immigrants
Places: Middle West, Balestrand (Norway), Balestrand, Norway
LC classification: F358.2.S2 G54 1985