Finns in the United States : a history of settlement, dissent, and integration /

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Group Author: Kostiainen, Auvo (Editor)
Published: Michigan State University Press,
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.
ISBN: 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 ...