Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2007 Immigrant identities in the rural Midwest, 1830-1925 Knut Oyangen Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Race and Ethnicity Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Oyangen, Knut, "Immigrant identities in the rural Midwest, 1830-1925" (2007). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 15995. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/15995 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Immigrant identities in the rural Midwest, 1830 - 1925 by Knut Oyangen A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program of Study Committee: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Major Professor Christopher Curtis Andrejs Plakans Xiaoyuan Liu Charles Dobbs Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2007 Copyright © Knut Oyangen, 2007. All rights reserved. UMI Number: 3274824 UMI Microform 3274824 Copyright 2007 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1.