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A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.
A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.
L.K. Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781442613669 |
| ISBN-10: | 1442613661 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Bertram, L K |
| Hersteller: | University of Toronto Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Maße: | 218 x 147 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | L K Bertram |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.03.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,386 kg |
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