From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

Jon Gjerde

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 January 1989
Pages
336
ISBN
9780521368223

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

Jon Gjerde

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.

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