Author: Leonard A. Coombs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Intellectual Life on the Michigan Frontier
Author: Leonard A. Coombs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Yankee West
Author: Susan E. Gray
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786174X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Yankee culture was a type of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786174X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Yankee culture was a type of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America.
Life on the Upper Michigan Frontier
Author: David C. B. Olson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Bark Covered House
Author: William Nowlin
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Bark Covered House" (Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan) by William Nowlin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Bark Covered House" (Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan) by William Nowlin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The First Michigan Frontier
Author: Calvin Goodrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Conflict on the Michigan Frontier
Author: James Z. Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Conflict on the Michigan Frontier touches on one of the oldest debates in American history: whether westerners created new cultures or simply transpalanted those in which they had been raised. Despite the focus on Michigan, Schwartz's study sheds important new light on how settlers transplanted eastern culture not just to the Midwest, but to the entire American frontier.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Conflict on the Michigan Frontier touches on one of the oldest debates in American history: whether westerners created new cultures or simply transpalanted those in which they had been raised. Despite the focus on Michigan, Schwartz's study sheds important new light on how settlers transplanted eastern culture not just to the Midwest, but to the entire American frontier.
A New Home - Who'll Follow?
Author: Caroline Matilda Kirkland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Forming an American Identity on the Michigan Frontier
Author: Christopher Michael Hammer
Publisher:
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Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Settling the Great Lakes Frontier
Author: C. Warren Vander Hill
Publisher: Lansing : Michigan Historical Commission
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Lansing : Michigan Historical Commission
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Michigan Frontier and Political Persuasion
Author: Charles F. Hampton
Publisher:
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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