Description |
1 online resource (vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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North American women's letters and diaries
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Contents |
INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: The Pioneers, 1840-1864; Background; Letters and Documents; Sections of illustrations; PART TWO: The Great Farmer-Land in the West, 1865-1889; Background; Letters and Documents; PART THREE: Farm, Forest, and Factory, 1890-1914; Background; Letters and Documents; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: Swedish Terms and Swedish Regions; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; SOURCES AND CREDITS; A; INDEX; B; D; C; F; E; H; G; J; K; L; I; M; O; P; N; R; S; Q; U; T; W; Y; V |
Summary |
H Arnold Barton has contributed to Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840- 1914 as an author. H. Arnold Barton, professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, is the author of ""The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga, ""and ""Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Swedish Americans -- History -- Sources
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Swedish Americans
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Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Barton, H. Arnold (Hildor Arnold), 1929-2016
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Svendsen, Gro, 1841-1878.
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Roos, Rosalie, 1823-1898.
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ISBN |
9780816693085 |
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0816693080 |
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0816638489 |
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9780816638482 |
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