A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930
$30.00
This significant work on immigrant life in America’s great cities examines the Norwegian urban experience as it expressed itself in Chicago. It serves to correct a strong rural bias in the historiography of the Norwegian-American population. A Norwegian colony took root in the front9ier setting of Chicago of the 1830s and grew with and adjusted to shifting demands and circumstances; it in time became the third largest “Norwegian city” in the world. The story is followed for period of one hundred years, a century of dramatic change. The themes and issues of its history are narrated and analyzed as they…
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