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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828306903321

Autore

Wilson Brian C

Titolo

Yankees in Michigan / / Brian C. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-62895-176-1

0-87013-970-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Collana

Discovering the peoples of Michigan

Disciplina

304.8/77407409034

304.877407409034

Soggetti

New Englanders - Michigan - History

Pioneers - Michigan - History

Internal migrants - Michigan - History

Frontier and pioneer life - Michigan

Regionalism - Michigan - History

Regionalism - Middle West - History

Michigan History

Michigan Social life and customs

Michigan Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-128) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Yankees in New England and beyond -- Yankees come to Michigan -- Yankees on the Michigan frontier -- The flowering of Yankee Michigan -- The industrialization of Yankee Michigan -- The decline of Yankee Michigan.

Sommario/riassunto

As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees-defined by their shared culture and sense of identity-had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan. After the ethnic label of ""Yankee"" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term ""Midwesterner."" So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America''s Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.