From Peasants to Farmers

By Jon Gjerde

Subjects: Norway, economic conditions, Foreign population, Farmers, Peasantry, Immigrants, Middle west, Norwegians, united states, Peasants, norway, Economic conditions, Norwegian Americans, Emigration and immigration, Social conditions, Peasants

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.