A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915
- ISBN-10
- 0299113248
- ISBN-13
- 9780299113247
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Univ of Wisconsin Press
- Author
- Robert Clifford Ostergren
Description
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.
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