Whiskey Breakfast : My Swedish Family, My American Life

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Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lindberg, Richard C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lindbergh family.
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953-
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953- > Childhood and youth.
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953- > Family.
Swedish Americans.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Americains d'origine suedoise > Illinois > Chicago > Biographies.
Swedish Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way station for a generation of working-class immigrants escaping the hardships of the old country for the promise of a brighter new day in a halfway house of sorts, perched between the old and new lands. For Richard C. Lindberg, whose Swedish immigrant parents and grandparents settled there, it was als.
Notas:EpiloguePostscript.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780816678297

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