Author: Carl Fowler Price
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Category : East Hampton (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Yankee Township
Author: Carl Fowler Price
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Hampton (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Category : East Hampton (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Postscripts to Yankee Township
Author: Carl Fowler Price
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Category : East Hampton (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : East Hampton (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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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.
Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Township
Author: Michael D. Sublett
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820470559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The contemporary method of township government arrived in Illinois in the middle of the nineteenth century. Replacing the commission method of county government, which Illinois had employed since statehood in 1818, the township innovation spread south and westward across Illinois, almost completely ousting the county commissioners. Today, the commission format survives only in seventeen peripheral and largely rural Illinois counties. This book asserts that townships have persisted partly because they offer vital services at a reasonable cost to taxpayers, but also because of a vigorous defense of the method made by township officials with political connections in the Illinois general assembly. Discussing the successes and failures of attempts by abolition-minded citizens to eliminate all or individual townships in various counties, Township focuses on the spatial diffusion, periodic threats to, and determined persistence of the township system.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820470559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The contemporary method of township government arrived in Illinois in the middle of the nineteenth century. Replacing the commission method of county government, which Illinois had employed since statehood in 1818, the township innovation spread south and westward across Illinois, almost completely ousting the county commissioners. Today, the commission format survives only in seventeen peripheral and largely rural Illinois counties. This book asserts that townships have persisted partly because they offer vital services at a reasonable cost to taxpayers, but also because of a vigorous defense of the method made by township officials with political connections in the Illinois general assembly. Discussing the successes and failures of attempts by abolition-minded citizens to eliminate all or individual townships in various counties, Township focuses on the spatial diffusion, periodic threats to, and determined persistence of the township system.
The Ore Deposits of Northeastern Washington
Author: Howland Bancroft
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Annual Report
Author: Michigan. Dept. of Auditor General
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World
Author: Joseph Thomas
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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The Christian Union
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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