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

Jon Gjerde (Author)

9780521368223, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 January 1989

336 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.517 kg

'He has carried out a distinguished analysis of demographic, economic, and cultural conditions in Balestrand, an analysis that shows that he has a command of important materials of different kinds.' Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo)

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.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]