Bücher von Jon Gjerde

An examination of the cultural patterns that migrants carried with them as they settled in the US Midwest in the 19th century. It compares patterns of development and acculturation across immigrant groups and the means by which ethnic groups built themselves a representative voice.

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.