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Book Synopsis Westward We Came by : Harold Berg Kildahl
Download or read book Westward We Came written by Harold Berg Kildahl and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwegian Harold B. Kildahl, Sr., sailed across the ocean to the New World in 1866. His memoir provides vivid descriptions of the Kildahl family's travels to southern Minnesota. The family witnessed the infamous James-Younger Gang bank raid in Northfield, Minnesota in September, 1876, and the founding of St. Olaf College. The annual floods of the Red River of the North ultimately lead the family to move to the Dakota Territory in 1883. In 1888, Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. returned to Minnesota to seek an education. During the next ten years, he completed grade school and high school, graduated from St. Olaf College (1895), and the Lutheran Seminary in Minneapolis (1898), was ordained, married, and received a call to be a pastor in the Lutheran Faith.
Book Synopsis Go Back to where You Came from by : Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Download or read book Go Back to where You Came from written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the new far right poses a graver threat to liberal democracy than jihadists or mass migration?From Europe to the United States and beyond, opportunistic politicians have exploited economic crisis, terrorist attacks and an influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the corridors of power. This climate has already helped propel Donald Trump to the White House, pushed Britain out of the European Union, and put Marine Le Pen within striking distance of the French presidency. Sasha Polakow-Suransky's on-the-ground reportage and interviews with the rising stars of the new right tell the story of how we got here, tracing the global rise of anti-immigration politics and the ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europe's new far right as defenders of Western liberal values. Go Back to Where You Came From is an indispensable account of why xenophobia went mainstream in countries known historically as defenders of human rights and models of tolerance.
Book Synopsis In Their Own Words by : Solveig Zempel
Download or read book In Their Own Words written by Solveig Zempel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Book Synopsis The Road on which We Came by : Steven James Crum
Download or read book The Road on which We Came written by Steven James Crum and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road on Which We Came is the first comprehensive history of the Great Basin Shoshone. Written by historian Steven Crum, an enrolled tribal member, this book presents the Shoshone as an active force in their own history, effectively adapting to a harsh physical environment, defending their territory in the nineteenth century, and working to modify or reject assimilationist policy in the present.
Book Synopsis Across the Deep Blue Sea by : Odd Sverre Lovoll
Download or read book Across the Deep Blue Sea written by Odd Sverre Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in Canada. After the introduction of free trade, Norwegian sailing ships engaged in the lucrative timber trade between Canada and the British Isles. Ships carried timber one way across the Atlantic and emigrants on the way west. For the vast majority landing in Canadian port cities, Canada became a corridor to their final destinations in the Upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lovoll explains the establishment and failure of Norwegian colonies in Quebec Province and pays due attention to the tragic fate of the Gaspe settlement. A personal story of the emigrant experience passed down as family lore is retold here, supported by extensive research. The journey south and settlement in the Upper Midwest completes a highly human narrative of the travails, endurance, failures, and successes of people who sought a better life in a new land. Odd S. Lovoll, professor emeritus of history at St. Olaf College and recipient of the Fritt Ords Honnør for his work on Norwegian immigration, is the author of numerous books, including Norwegians on the Prairie and Norwegian Newspapers in America"--
Book Synopsis Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in Australia by : Daniel Bunce
Download or read book Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in Australia written by Daniel Bunce and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australasiatic Reminiscences of twenty-three years' wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias by : Daniel Bunce
Download or read book Australasiatic Reminiscences of twenty-three years' wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias written by Daniel Bunce and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in Australia by : author of "Hortus tasmaniensis" (The)
Download or read book Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in Australia written by author of "Hortus tasmaniensis" (The) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, in All Parts of the World by : John Pinkerton
Download or read book “A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, in All Parts of the World written by John Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Norwegians on the Prairie by : Odd S. Lovoll
Download or read book Norwegians on the Prairie written by Odd S. Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study that examines the social, cultural, and religious development of Norwegian Americans in the agricultural communities of rural Minnesota.
Book Synopsis A Marylander and Texian by : Dennis M. Drummond
Download or read book A Marylander and Texian written by Dennis M. Drummond and published by DRA Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. G. Catlett’s name is on land surveys throughout central Texas. This book, with never-before published letters and documents, tells his story—his work as a surveyor, service as a Texas Ranger, a courier for Zachary Taylor, an Army quartermaster, an expert on Indian affairs, and a proponent for a National Road (through Texas, of course.) Available at Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis A Cruising Voyage Around the World by : Woodes Rogers
Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Around the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a great primary source into long voyages around the world and what occurred and was found along the way. The sea has always been the cradle of the Britain, and over six hundred years ago an old chronicler who was also an adventure wrote in this book the great sea tradition that "English ships visited every coast," and that "English sailors excelled all others both in the arts of navigation and in fighting."
Book Synopsis The Patriarch and the Tsar: Testimonies concerning the patriarch Nicon, the Tsar, and the boyars, from the Travels of the patriarch Macarius of Antioch, written in Arabic by his son and archdeacon Paul of Aleppo by :
Download or read book The Patriarch and the Tsar: Testimonies concerning the patriarch Nicon, the Tsar, and the boyars, from the Travels of the patriarch Macarius of Antioch, written in Arabic by his son and archdeacon Paul of Aleppo written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis We Came Naked and Barefoot by : Alex D. Krieger
Download or read book We Came Naked and Barefoot written by Alex D. Krieger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second place, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 2003 Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six years of captivity among native peoples, and an arduous, overland journey in which he and the three other remaining survivors of the original expedition walked some 1,500 miles from the central Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then another 1,300 miles to Mexico City. The story of Cabeza de Vaca has been told many times, beginning with his own account, Relación de los naufragios, which was included and amplified in Gonzalo Fernando de Oviedo y Váldez's Historia general de las Indias. Yet the route taken by Cabeza de Vaca and his companions remains the subject of enduring controversy. In this book, Alex D. Krieger correlates the accounts in these two primary sources with his own extensive knowledge of the geography, archaeology, and anthropology of southern Texas and northern Mexico to plot out stage by stage the most probable route of the 2,800-mile journey of Cabeza de Vaca. This book consists of several parts, foremost of which is the original English version of Alex Krieger's dissertation (edited by Margery Krieger), in which he traces the route of Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from the coast of Texas to Spanish settlements in western Mexico. This document is rich in information about the native groups, vegetation, geography, and material culture that the companions encountered. Thomas R. Hester's foreword and afterword set the 1955 dissertation in the context of more recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries, some of which have supported Krieger's plot of the journey. Margery Krieger's preface explains how she prepared her late husband's work for publication. Alex Krieger's original translations of the Cabeza de Vaca and Oviedo accounts round out the volume.
Book Synopsis The Annual review and history of literature, A. Aiken ed by : Arthur Aikin
Download or read book The Annual review and history of literature, A. Aiken ed written by Arthur Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust by : Edward Anders
Download or read book Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust written by Edward Anders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Anders, son of Adolf Alperovitch (1897-1941) and Erika Sheftelovitch-Meiran (1895-1992), was born in 1926 in Libau, Latvia. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. He married Joan Fleming in 1955. They had two children.
Book Synopsis Wanderer on the American Frontier by : John Maley
Download or read book Wanderer on the American Frontier written by John Maley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two hundred years, a fragment of the journal of John Maley, an obscure explorer on the American frontier, resided at Yale University and was treated with some skepticism by historians. It was only in 2012, when the first half of the manuscript turned up at a barn sale in Pennsylvania and was acquired by Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library, that the full story of Maley’s travels could be pieced together. Wanderer on the American Frontier makes the complete journal available for the first time, allowing readers to follow a contemporary of Lewis and Clark on his journey through the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red River valleys, and to reassess the account’s authenticity. Between 1808 and 1813, Maley covered more than 16,000 miles through thirteen present-day states. Much of that travel took him beyond the fringes of civilization, and his journal offers some of the earliest descriptions of the Ozark Plateau, the Ouachita Mountains, and the upper reaches of the Red River. His account also provides a firsthand look at life on the frontier in the tumultuous years following the Louisiana Purchase. Editor F. Andrew Dowdy has carefully retraced Maley’s steps and, with extensive use of maps, has reconciled some of the journal’s more confusing passages to give readers clear modern-day reference points. Numerous annotations and appendices provide necessary historical context, from the link between Maley’s 1809 Indiana copper exploration and the Treaty of Fort Wayne, to the ways his 1811 foray into Spanish Texas presaged further filibusters there during the Mexican War for Independence. The fascinating tale of one of the wider-ranging explorers in American history, Wanderer on the American Frontier is an invaluable resource that provides a unique window on the West in the early nineteenth century.
