From peasants to farmers

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