Finns in the United States : a history of settlement, dissent, and integration /
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Michigan State University Press,
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Publisher Address: | East Lansing, Michigan : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781611861068 (paperback) : 1611861063 (paperback) |
Index Number: | E184 |
CLC: | D771.237 |
Call Number: | D771.237/F514 |
Contents: | pt. 1. Introduction. Updating and rethinking the Finnish American story / Jon Saari -- Interest in the history of Finnish Americans / Auvo Kostiainen -- pt. 2. Colonial settlement of the Swedes and Finns. The Delaware colonists and their heritage / Auvo Kostiainen -- pt. 3. Seamen, masses, and individual migrants of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Migration from Finland to North America / Reino Kero -- Finnish settlements in the United States: "nesting places" and Finntowns / Arnold R. Alanen -- Ambiguous identity: Finnish Americans and the race question / Peter Kivisto and Johanna Leinonen -- pf. 4. Finnish communities organized. Fighting for temperance ideas / Paul George Hummasti ... |