The epic journey of the millions of people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the nineteenth century to settle in the Untied States has stirred the imagination of historians for decades.
An edition of From Peasants to Farmers
(1985)
From peasants to farmers
the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West
by Jon Gjerde
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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.
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Farmers, Peasants, Emigration and immigration, Economic conditions, Norwegian Americans, Social conditions, Peasantry, Foreign population, Norway, economic conditions, Peasants, norway, Middle west, Norwegians, united states, ImmigrantsPlaces
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From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
January 27, 1989, Cambridge University Press
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0521368227 9780521368223
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From peasants to farmers: the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West
1985, Cambridge University Press
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052126068X 9780521260688
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