Swedes in Michigan

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca J. Mead is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches U.S. history, women's history, public history, labor history, and Native American history. Klappentext In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of Swedish immigrants came to Michigan seeking new opportunities in the United States and relief from economic, religious, or political problems at home. Swedes in Michigan traces the evolution of hard-working people who valued education and assimilated actively while simultaneously maintaining their cultural ties and institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Mead, Rebecca J Mead, Rebecca J. Mead
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2012
• EAN: 9781611860412
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-041-2
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Discovering the Peoples of Mic; Discovering the Peoples of Mic
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous