The Finnish Immigrant Experience in North America, 1880-2000
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7734-5678-5 (ISBN)
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This is a compilation of over twenty years of research and publication of articles dealing with the Finnish ethnic group of North America. Topics include Finnish immigrants of Atlantic Canada, runaway sailors, prairie farmers, commercial fishermen of Lake Superior, the Finland-Swedish ethnolinguistic minority of Canada, the Finns of Virginia and Central Appalachia, and the popularity of the Finnish sauna in the American hospitality industry.
Mika Roinila is Assistant Professor of Geography at Bethel College, Indiana.
Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Finns of Atlantic Canada; 2. A Finnish Runaway Sailor in New Brunswick: The Experiences of George (Yrjo) Laakso; 3. A Century of Change: The Rolla/Rock Lake Finnish Settlement of North Dakota; 4. Finland-Swedes in Canada: Discovering Some Unknown Finnish Facts; 5. Finland-Swedes of British Columbia; 6. Finland-Swedish Immigrants in the Scandinavia Colony of Manitoba, Canada; 7. Finnish Ethnicity in the State of Virginia; 8. From Monessen to Clarksburg and Beyond: The Finnish Ethnicity in Central Appalachia; 9. Finnish Commercial Fishermen on Lake Superior: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Fishery; 10. Popularizing the Finnish Sauna: The Case of the American Hospitality Industry; Index.
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, maps |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7734-5678-3 / 0773456783 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7734-5678-5 / 9780773456785 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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