The Viking immigrants : Icelandic North Americans /
From 1870 until 1914, almost one quarter of the population of Iceland migrated to North America. The Viking Immigrants examines how the distinctive everyday culture that emerged in Icelandic North American communitie, from food and fashion to ghost stories and Viking parades, sheds light on a centur...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in gender and history ;
49. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dressing up: clothing and upward mobility in the early immigrant community, 1870-1900
- The coffee pot and King Bacchus: Icelandic immigrant drinking cultures
- Unsettling apparitions: power, ghost stories, and superstitious belief
- Main Street vikings: Anglicization, spectacle, and the two World Wars
- Icelandic cake fight: a brief history of vinarterta
- Conclusion
- Appendix: historical vinarterta recipes.