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Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Creating the North American landscape
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human geography--United States.
- Human geography.
- Geography.
- Ethnicity.
- History.
- Regionalism.
- United States.
- Regionalism--United States--History.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Ethnicity--United States--History.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--United States--History.
- Minorities.
- United States--Geography.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Homelands explores the connection of people and place by showing how aspects of several different North American groups found their niche and created a homeland. It looks at geographical concepts in community settings.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Free Land, Dry Land, Homeland / Richard L. Nostrand, Lawrence E. Estaville xiii
- 1 The New England Yankee Homeland / Martyn J. Bowden 1
- 2 The Pennsylvanian Homeland / Richard Pillsbury 24
- 3 Old Order Amish Homelands / Ary J. Lamme III 44
- 4 Blacks in the Plantation South: Unique Homelands / Charles S. Aiken 53
- 5 The Creole Coast: Homeland to Substrate / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov 73
- 6 Nouvelle Acadie: The Cajun Homeland / Lawrence E. Estaville 83
- 7 La Tierra Tejana: A South Texas Homeland / Daniel D. Arreola 101
- 8 The Anglo-Texan Homeland / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov 125
- 9 The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma / Steven M. Schnell 139
- 10 The Highland-Hispano Homeland / Richard L. Nostrand 155
- 11 The Navajo Homeland / Stephen C. Jett 168
- 12 Mormondom's Deseret Homeland / Lowell C. "Ben" Bennion 184
- 13 California's Emerging Russian Homeland / Susan W. Hardwick 210
- 14 Montana's Emerging Montane Homeland / John B. Wright 225
- 15 American Homelands: A Dissenting View / Michael P. Conzen 238.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801867002
- OCLC:
- 45356646
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