"An exceptional work, meticulously researched and woven together with analytic rigor and attention to the particularities of the subject matter.  It is written in a style that combines individual narrative histories with systematic empirical inquiry yielding a work that is intellectually sophisticated and at times lyrical.  In short, it should not only be read by students of American immigration, but should serve as a model for future research."—International Migration Review

• Contents 
• Illustrations
• Tables
• Preface
• 1 
• Introduction: Immigration, Community, and the Agricultural Settlement of the Upper Middle West
• 2 
• The Old Community: Kinship, Village, and Church at Mid-Century
• 3 
• The Land They Left: Economy in Rättvik at Mid-Century
• 4 
• The Migration: Pattern and Selection, 1864–1889
• 5 
• The New Land: Settlement Processes
• 6 
• The Transplanted Community: The Formative Years, 1865–1889
• 7 
• The Maturation of Community: Land and Family in the Post-Settlement Period, 1890–1915
• 8 
• The Society They Left Behind: Post-Migration Adjustment and Change in the Old Community, 1885–1915
• 9 
• Epilogue: Looking Back on the Trans-Atlantic Experience
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index