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  • The Windows of Brimnes

    An American in Iceland

    de Bill Holm ...
    A Midwesterner contemplates the view of America from a remote Icelandic village: "A pleasure to read and ponder." — Booklist (starred review)A Minnesotan of Icelandic ancestry, Bill Holm had traveled all over the world, gathering material for a number of rich and memorable books. Then he decided to journey to the land his family had long ago left behind for the United States, and moved into a town ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Northwest Coast Indian Art

    An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition

    de Burke Museum, Bill Holm ...
    Series series Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series
    The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book.The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world’s artists. The painted and carved wooden ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Germans in Minnesota

    de Kathleen Neils Conzen ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and were the largest ancestry group in the 2000 census. Author Kathleen Neils Conzen tells the story of German Americans and their profound influence on Minnesota history and culture.Conzen recounts their triumphs and struggles over the last 150 years in a ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Music of Failure

    de Bill Holm ...
    Series series A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
    “The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection introduced to many the singular vision and voice of literary giant Bill Holm, a writer who had ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Poles in Minnesota

    de John Radzilowski ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    Polish Americans have been part of Minnesota history since before the state's founding. Taking up farms along newly laid rail networks, Polish immigrants fanned across the countryside in small but important concentrations. In cities like Winona and St. Paul, Northeast Minneapolis and Duluth, as well as on the Iron Range, Polish American workers helped drive a growing industrial and agricultural ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Hmong in Minnesota

    de Chia Youyee Vang ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota.Chia Youyee Vang reveals the colorful, intricate history of Hmong Minnesotans, many of whom were forced to flee their homeland of Laos when ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Chinese in Minnesota

    de Sherri Gebert Fuller ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    Minnesota's first Chinese settlers, fleeing racial violence in California, established scores of small businesses after they arrived in the late 1870s. Newspapers eagerly published reports of the small Chinese community's activities, including New Year's festivities, marriages, and restaurant openings—as well as allegations of tong activity and of their political ties to China. Beginning in 1882 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Irish in Minnesota

    de Ann Regan ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    A concise history of Irish in Minnesota including farming, politics, and community organization. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Swedes in Minnesota

    de Anne Gillespie Lewis ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. From before statehood, Swedish immigrants flooded into the small frontier towns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Encouraged by agents who promised inexpensive and fertile farmland, they came by the thousands. By the turn of the twentieth century, over 126,000 Swedes lived in Minnesota—and their impact on everything ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Women of the Northern Plains

    Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier

    de Barbara Handy-Marchello ...
    In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor—raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter—to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Korean Americans in Chicago

    de Kyu Young Park Ph.D. ...
    Series series Images of America
    Koreans first began to immigrate to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. Drawn to the Windy City in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Korean Americans quickly began to establish what has become a thriving community that remains active and distinct. For the past 100 years, the Korean American community has contributed greatly to the growth and development of the Chicago ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The National Dream

    The Great Railway, 1871-1881

    de Pierre Berton ...
    In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision—bold to the point of recklessness—was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation.Using primary sources—diaries, letters, unpublished ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD