The promise of America : a history of the Norwegian-American people /
In The Promise of America, historian Odd S. Lovoll tells the story of the thousands of Norwegian immigrants who gambled on a fresh start in the United States. Now, Lovoll has carefully revised this successful book to reflect new understandings of the Norwegian-American past, updating this story to t...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association,
©1984.
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Table of Contents:
- Norway and Europe, the emigration
- A Norwegian-American society comes into being
- An immigrant community develops
- The immense land
- The spirit and the mind
- The press and public life
- Cultural growth
- New conquests-country and town
- Norwegian America
- Americans-with ties to Norway.