Article: Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers.(Book Review)

Thor, Jonas. Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. 306 pp. $24.95 paper.

The study of immigration to and through North America continues to hold a pivotal place in American historiography. Jonas Thor has added an important chapter to this history with his book Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers. Thor intensely researched the motives, settlement patterns, and outcomes of one of North America's lesser-known immigrant groups. What is most striking about this book is the volume of research, from both Iceland and North America, which Thor accumulated in order to retell the story of the first wave of ...

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