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Author : Ingrid Semmingsen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452902432
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Norway to America written by Ingrid Semmingsen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orm Øverland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816693252
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (932 download)
Download or read book From America to Norway: 1871-1892 written by Orm Øverland and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking economic improvement or a fresh start, following family or news of a land of opportunity, Norwegians left their homeland for America in great numbers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They settled in Pennsylvania and Illinois and moved on to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, finding in the preire or prærie a promising and hospitable landscape-and they wrote home about it. From these letters-some published in newspapers or newsletters, most found on family farms and in homes held for generation after generation-comes a polyphonic history of Norwegian immigration. Sent from towns and cities and rural outposts, from Chicago and Minneapolis (the Norwegian-American "capital"), from Four Mile Prairie, Texas, and Coon Prairie, Wisconsin, from Hot Creek, Nevada, and Rock Creek, Iowa, and from Christiana, Wisconsin, to Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, these letters were concerned with matters from the price of postage to the question of picking up stakes and moving halfway around the world and afford an intimate view of the vast and varied experience of Norwegian immigrants settling in this country. In this volume, edited and translated by Orm Øverland and covering the period from 1838 to 1870, Norwegian immigrants relate the successes, challenges, and sorrows of their new life to the communities they left behind.
Author : John Fulford Vicary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book An American in Norway written by John Fulford Vicary and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Odd Sverre Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873517966
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Norwegian Newspapers in America written by Odd Sverre Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Already Skandinaven, published out of Chicago, kept newcomers and their Old World friends and family informed of political, religious, and social matters discussed in burgeoning Norwegian American communities. From 1847 to today, more than 280 Norwegian-language papers were launched in cities ranging from Minneapolis to Fargo, Boston to Seattle. Some lasted just a few months; others continued for decades; all contributed to a developing Norwegian American perspective. Odd Lovoll traces newspaper ventures both successful and short lived to offer a comprehensive look at America's Norwegian-language press. Highlighting diligent editors and analyzing topics of interest to readers through the years, Norwegian Newspapers in America demonstrates how newspapers pursued a twofold goal: forging a bridge to the homeland while nurturing cultural practices in the New World.
Author : Åsne Seierstad
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710201
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book One of Us written by Åsne Seierstad and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a New York Times bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent. On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young? As in her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik's childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist, a successful entrepreneur, and then an Internet game addict and self-styled master warrior who believed he could save Europe from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik's victims, tracing their political awakenings, teenage flirtations and hopes, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya and relates what happened there, we know both the killer and those he will kill. In the book's final act, Seierstad describes Breivik's tumultuous public trial. As Breivik took the stand and articulated his ideas, an entire country debated whether he should be deemed insane, and asked why a devastating sequence of police errors allowed one man to do so much harm. One of Us is at once a psychological study of violent extremism, a dramatic true crime procedural, and a compassionate inquiry into how a privileged society copes with homegrown evil. Lauded in Scandinavia for its literary merit and moral poise, One of Us is the true story of one of our age's most tragic events.
Author : Olaf Morgan Norlie
Publisher : Minneapolis, Minn. : Augsburg Publishing House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of the Norwegian People in America written by Olaf Morgan Norlie and published by Minneapolis, Minn. : Augsburg Publishing House. This book was released on 1925 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background history of Norway, immigration, organizations and people in Norweigna-America.
Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Norwegian Migration to America ... written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1931 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peder Gustav Tjernal
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781609380069
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Follinglo Dog Book written by Peder Gustav Tjernal and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in Iowa in what was still the age of wooden equipment and animal power, the Tjernagels witnessed each successive revolution on the land. They built homes and barns, cultivated the land, and encountered every manner of natural disaster from prairie fires to blizzards. And, of course, there are the dogs who shepherd, protect, and even baby-sit the residents of Follinglo Farm.
Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Norwegian Migration to America written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1940 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Clara Bensen
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 0762457252
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)
Download or read book No Baggage written by Clara Bensen and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries—Zero Baggage Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch? No hotel reservations, no plans, and best of all, no baggage. Clara's story will resonate with adventurers and homebodies alike—it's at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for labels and commitment? Is it possible to truly leave your baggage behind?
Author : Lorelou Desjardins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788230349199
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Frog in the Fjord written by Lorelou Desjardins and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816684693
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Happy Times in Norway written by Sigrid Undset and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset’s own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.
Author : Kathleen Stokker
Publisher : Borealis Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Keeping Christmas written by Kathleen Stokker and published by Borealis Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings home the stories and origins of the treasured customs which Norwegians use to celebrate the Christmas season. Norwegian immigrants carried with them centuries-old folk tradition, which they held especially dear at Christmas time, remembering family members left behind. But the US, the immigrants and their descendants met the newly evolving traditions of the commercial American Christmas, a powerful homogenising force in a nation of immigrants. Stokker describes and traces the development of folkways on both side of the ocean, from their origins to their practice today. With fascinating details, with scores of accounts of ancient and modern Christmases, with recipes and photographs, this book reminds Norwegians and Norwegian Americans of their connections to each other and explains how their celebrations differ on this joyous family holiday.
Author : John Yilek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681112183
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (121 download)
Download or read book History of Norway written by John Yilek and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on exhaustive research, History of Norway is a clear, informative and entertaining description of Norway's history from the earliest cultures of the Stone Age to today's oil and gas economy. Along the way, there are fascinating stories of Vikings, the Sami, kings and queens, farmers and fishermen, merchants and miners, the Black Death, the Hanseatic merchants, the Reformation, independence, emigration from Norway to America, polar explorers, the Nazi invasion and the Norwegian resistance in World War II, and much more "John Yilek's History of Norway presents a clear, fast-moving, and sharply focused story of Norway from its beginnings to the present day." --Odell M. Bjerkness, Professor Emeritus, Concordia College, Moorhead, author of several books about Norway
Author : Sean Percival
Publisher : Percival Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9788269237993
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Living with Norwegians written by Sean Percival and published by Percival Pub.. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a collection of personal experiences, Norwegian stereotypes, and friendly advice on how survive life in Norway. It's the ideal starting point for someone who is curious about life in Norway and for those already in the process of making the move. Learn how to adapt to life in Norway and better understand the sometimes-peculiar Norwegians themselves. After reading this book you'll be better prepared for the challenges Norway will throw at you. And you, regardless of your country of origin or status, will be challenged by life in Norway. However, through these challenges you might just come to love Norway. Although it's not an easy country to love sometimes, you have to work hard for it. You have to struggle sometimes to be worthy of the great honor of having Norway love you back. This struggle before the reward is actually the Norwegian way. The book is organized into several sections. It's not meant to be some concrete "dos and don'ts" guide or a heavy academic work on the intricacies of Norwegian society. Although it will tell you over 50 things you can try to not only survive Norway but hopefully thrive as well.
Author : Aleta Chossek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645380962
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Kristine, Finding Home written by Aleta Chossek and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristine, Finding Home: Norway to America is the story of Kristine Kristiansen Hjelmeland, a young woman born and raised in Førde, Norway, and her journey from sheltered maiden aunt, to mother, to leader within her new American community.
Author : Ane-Charlotte Five Aarset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681340487
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book They Sang for Norway written by Ane-Charlotte Five Aarset and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From choir singing to supporting guerrillas--the story of a Norwegian immigrant in America and the struggle for independence back home.
