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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.Gjerde, Jon is the author of 'From Peasants to Farmers The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Middle West' with ISBN 9780521368223 and ISBN 0521368227.
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