A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915
A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915
by Robert C. Ostergren
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 Cloth: 978-0-299-11320-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-11324-7 Library of Congress Classification JV6749.I83O88 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 325.24850977664
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"An exceptional work, meticulously researched and woven together with analytic rigor and attention to the particularities of the subject matter. It is written in a style that combines individual narrative histories with systematic empirical inquiry yielding a work that is intellectually sophisticated and at times lyrical. In short, it should not only be read by students of American immigration, but should serve as a model for future research."—International Migration Review
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert C. Ostergren, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the coauthor of the Cultural Map of Wisconsin, and coeditor of Wisconsin Land and Life, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
REVIEWS
“An exceptional work, meticulously researched and woven together with analytic rigor and attention to the particularities of the subject matter. It is written in a style that combines individual narrative histories with systematic empirical inquiry yielding a work that is intellectually sophisticated and at times lyrical. In short, it should not only be read by students of American immigration, but should serve as a model for future research.”—International Migration Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Preface
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 Rättvik 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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