Land of their choice : the immigrants write home /

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This collection of?American letters? that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is part of the larger saga of America. It constitutes a kind of composite diary of everyday people at the.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Norwegian
Publicado: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 1955.
Colección:North American women's letters and diaries.
Temas:
Norwegian Americans.
Américains d'origine norvégienne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Civilization.
United States > Civilization.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The immigrant image of America
  • The "sloopfolk" arrive
  • Westward to El-a-noy
  • Wisconsin is the place
  • The Atlantic crossing
  • Scouting the promised land
  • Spreading the gospel
  • Journeying toward new horizons
  • Ordeal and debate
  • Appraising the American scene
  • The transatlantic gold rush
  • Cheerful voices at mid-century
  • More than a ballad
  • A humorist in Canaan
  • A lady grows old in Texas
  • In defense of the southwest
  • From a frontier parsonage
  • The beautiful land
  • The glorious new Scandinavia.

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