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Article Excerpt
by Mika Roinila, The Edward Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, 2006, iii + 167 pages, cloth $99.95US (ISBN 0-7734-5678-3)
Relatively few scholars have studied North America's Finnish immigrants and their descendants, a lacuna undoubtedly attributed to a significant degree by the difficult nature of the Finnish language, which clearly limits the number of individuals who are qualified to use primary research materials written in the original language. This book expands upon existing Finnish immigrant studies that have focused mostly on the main immigrant concentrations in the Midwest states in the U.S. and Ontario. The ten previously published articles, the summation of the author's life's work on the subject, draw upon a variety of data sources, including archival records, census materials, mail surveys and personal interviews. The text is accompanied by maps, tables and archival photographs.
Chapter 1 examines the early settlement of...
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