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Yankee colonies across America : cities upon the hills / Chaim M. Rosenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenberg, Chaim M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans.
- History.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Americans--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
- Summary:
- This book describes how after a century and a half in New England, the Yankees--direct descendants of the Puritans who arrived between 1620 and 1640--established colonies across the western frontier and brought with them the values and institutions that make up today's America.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Yankees in exile
- Yankee New York
- Rufus Putnam : founder and father of Ohio
- The promised land of the Connecticut Western Reserve
- Michigan
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota : the New England of the West
- Missouri
- Kansas and Nebraska
- Iowa and the Dakotas
- California and the Gold Rush
- The Pacific Northwest
- Yankees in the South
- Yankees abroad : slaves, rum, opium, and religion
- Hawaii
- Land speculation and railroads
- Spreading the word
- New England loses its industries
- Those who stayed behind
- Brahmins of the west
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781498519830
- 1498519830
- OCLC:
- 922913814
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