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Cover of the book "The Colony that Rose from the Sea"

The Colony That Rose From the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1910

The development of the Norwegian community in Brooklyn was closely tied to the international maritime trade that developed from the 1850s to 1920. In this first book-length study of the immigrant community originally known as the Red Hook district and later as Little Norway, a Norwegian scholar traces its development and its place in the overall scheme of Norwegian emigration to America.

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The following is the table of contents from “The Colony That Rose From the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1910.”

Chapter 1: The Colony that Rose from the Sea (pp. 3)
Chapter 2: The Norwegian Background of Brooklyn’s Red Hook Colony (pp. 17)
Chapter 3: Getting There and Coming Ashore: Maritime Transience, Desertion, and Settlement in Manhattan (pp. 41)
Chapter 4: One Pattern among Many in Brooklyn’s Complex and Shifting Fabric (pp. 69)
Chapter 5: Saving Seamen in Babylon: The First Institutions in Brooklyn’s Norwegian Colony (pp. 93)
Chapter 6: In the Foundry of Change: Coping with the Transformations of the 1880s (pp. 119)
Chapter 7: Living and Working Together in the 1890s (pp. 151)
Chapter 8: Our Own Little World: Community Life in Little Norway, 1890-1910 (pp. 186)
Chapter 9: A Den of Pirates with Many Tales to Tell (pp. 213)