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A community transplanted : the trans-Atlantic experience of a Swedish immigrant settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915
- Title
- A community transplanted : the trans-Atlantic experience of a Swedish immigrant settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915 / Robert C. Ostergren.
- Author
- Ostergren, Robert Clifford.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | JV6749.I83 O88 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 400 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The book follows the people from the Swedish farming community of Rättvik to Isanti County, Minnesota and explores the link of people and places between Sweden and America.
- Series Statement
- Social demography
- Uniform Title
- Social demography
- Subject
- Geschichte 1835-1915
- Swedes > Minnesota > Isanti County
- Swedish Americans > Minnesota > Isanti County
- Emigration and immigration
- Swedes
- Swedish Americans
- Swedes > Minnesota
- Swedish Americans > Minnesota
- Einwanderung
- Schweden Volk
- Isanti County (Minn.) > Emigration and immigration
- Rättvik (Sweden) > Emigration and immigration
- Minnesota > Isanti County
- Sweden > Rättvik
- United States, Minnesota, Isanti > Emigration and immigration
- Sweden, Kopparberg, Rättvik > Emigration and immigration
- USA > Mittlerer Westen
- Schweden (Volksgruppe)
- Note
- Revision of thesis.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 365-391.
- Contents
- Chapters: 1. Introduction: Immigration, community, and the agricultural settlement of the Upper Middle West. -- 2. The Old Community: kinship, village, and church at mid-century. 3 The land they left: economy in Rattvik at mid-century. -- 4. The migration: pattern and selection, 1864-1889. -- 5. The new land: settlement processes. -- 6. The transplanted community: the formative years, 1865-1889. -- 7. The maturation of community: land and family in the post-settlement period, 1890-1915. -- 8. The society they left behind: post-migration adjustment and change in the old community, 1885-1915. -- 9. Epilogue: looking back on the trans-Atlantic experience.
- ISBN
- 0299113205
- 9780299113209
- 0299113248
- 9780299113247
- LCCN
- 88000211
- OCLC
- ocm17509233
- 17509233
- SCSB-1705830
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library