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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David C. Mauk. The Colony that Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850–1910. Northfield, Minn.: Norwegian-American Historical Association; distributed by the University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Ill. 1997. Pp. xiii, 272. $44.95.

The Norwegians, concentrated primarily in the Upper Midwest, are considered the most rural of American immigrant groups, and Norwegian-American scholarship has traditionally concerned itself mainly with their farming settlements. Still, although by 1910 some forty percent of them lived in cities, only recently has their urban history attracted much attention, beginning with Odd S. Lovoll's A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (1988). 1

David C. Mauk here presents the second such study, this time of the Norwegians in Brooklyn, who came to comprise the largest urban concentration of their people outside Norway (p. x). Mauk soon discovered that his research required investigation of an important but hitherto neglected type of migration: that of maritime populations. He thus provides a new paradigm for seafarers' colonies scattered throughout the world. 2

Brooklyn's Norwegian settlement, centered in Red Hook near the Atlantic Docks and Ship Basin, was above all characterized by the extreme mobility of its long and short-term inhabitants, who, in Mauk's words, "literally floated in and out of the colony" (p. 215). These ran the gamut from sailors on shore leave, many of them frequent visitors, to those whose contracts ran out there or who simply jumped ship, usually to sign onto American or other foreign vessels, to those who "went on land," took up new occupations, married or sent for their families, and settled down. The numbers of Norwegians in the settlement at any given time always exceeded what the official statistics could record. Until the mid-1880s, transient seamen far outnumbered the settled Norwegian population. . . .

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