Viking Immigrants - Icelandic North Americans

Informationen zum Autor By L.K. Bertram Klappentext Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink. Zusammenfassung Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens! from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction 1. Dressing Up: Clothing, Power, and Upward Mobility in the Early Immigrant Community, 1870-1900 2. Coffee Pots and Homebrew Stills: Drinking Cultures, Pleasure, and Belonging in the Icelandic Immigrant Community 3. Unsettling Apparitions: Icelandic-North American Ghost Stories and Superstitious Belief 4. Main Street Vikings: Anglicization, Spectacle, and the Two World Wars 5. "Don’t ask Icelanders how to make their Christmas Cake": A Brief History of Vínarterta ConclusionWorks Cited

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• Authors: L. K. Bertram, L.k. Bertram, Laurie K Bertram, Laurie K. Bertram
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781442645516
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4551-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kanada, Amerikanische Geschichte, Nordeuropa, Skandinavien, History - General History, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia