One day for democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range immigrants / / Mary Lou Nemanic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454490103321
• Autore: Nemanic Mary Lou <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8214-4224-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.6/0409
• Soggetti: European Americans - Minnesota - Social life and customs; European Americans - Cultural assimilation - Minnesota; Fourth of July celebrations - Minnesota - History; Immigrants - Minnesota - Social life and customs; Miners - Minnesota - Social life and customs; Iron ranges - Minnesota - History; Electronic books.; Minnesota Social life and customs; Minnesota Emigration and immigration Social aspects History; Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration Social aspects History; Europe, Southern Emigration and immigration Social aspects History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references (p. 225-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992" -- Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism -- The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905 -- One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24 -- The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41 -- The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92 -- Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century.