Maine : an annotated bibliography / Christian P. Potholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maine--Bibliography.

Maine.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. It provides readers an overview of more than four hundred books written about Maine, including the perspective they provide. Chapters such as "The Wild, Wild East," "Ethnicity Matters," "Women in Maine," and "Maine in the Civil War" stimulate the imagination and provide the most comprehensive synopses of writing about Maine available. Book jacket.

Contents:

"As Maine goes, so goes the nation"

Finding the real Maines.

Finding the real Maines: physical, political, demographic and psychographic

Dimensions

The wild, wild East

Ethnicity matters

Maine media

Polling: the art and the science

The history of modern Maine politics.

The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype

The Muskie revolution

The high tide of democratic aspirations

The Cohen counter-revolution

Maine's independent governors in myth and reality

Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3"

Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ."

Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate"

Additional topics.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine

Women of Maine

The Bowdoin connection

Visual depictions of Maine

Primary research opportunities

Best Maine politics axioms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780739170045

073917004X

9780739170052

0739170058

OCLC:

742512288