The Viking Immigrants

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Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Dressing Up: Clothing, Power, and Upward Mobility in the Early Immigrant Community, 1870-1900 2. Coffee Pots and Homebrew Stills: Drinking Cultures, Pleasure, and Belonging in the Icelandic Immigrant Community 3. Unsettling Apparitions: Icelandic-North American Ghost Stories and Superstitious Belief 4. Main Street Vikings: Anglicization, Spectacle, and the Two World Wars 5. "Don’t ask Icelanders how to make their Christmas Cake": A Brief History of Vínarterta Conclusion Works Cited