From Peasants to Farmers

Download or Read eBook From Peasants to Farmers PDF written by Jon Gjerde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Peasants to Farmers
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0521368227
ISBN-13 : 9780521368223
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Book Synopsis From Peasants to Farmers by : Jon Gjerde

Book excerpt: 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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