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Scandinavians in Michigan /

The Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Their age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hancks, Jeffrey W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Their age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scandinavians felt comfortable with each other, a feeling forged through centuries of familiarity, and they usually chose to live in close proximity in communities throughout the Upper Midwest of the United States. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century and continuing until t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (96 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781609170448