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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.
- Creating the North American landscape
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human geography--United States.
- Human geography.
- Regionalism--United States--History.
- Regionalism.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Ethnicity--United States--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--United States--History.
- Minorities.
- United States--Geography.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Free Land, Dry Land, Homeland""; ""Chapter One The New England Yankee Homeland""; ""Chapter Two The Pennsylvanian Homeland""; ""Chapter Three Old Order Amish Homelands""; ""Chapter Four Blacks in the Plantation South Unique Homelands""; ""Chapter Five The Creole Coast Homeland to Substrate""; ""Chapter Six Nouvelle Acadie The Cajun Homeland""
- ""Chapter Seven La Tierra Tejana A South Texas Homeland"" ""Chapter Eight The Anglo-Texan Homeland""; ""Chapter Nine The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma""; ""Chapter Ten The Highland-Hispano Homeland""; ""Chapter Eleven The Navajo Homeland""; ""Chapter Twelve Mormondoma's Deseret Homeland""; ""Chapter Thirteen California's Emerging Russian Homeland""; ""Chapter Fourteen Montana's Emerging Montane Homeland""; ""Chapter Fifteen American Homelands A Dissenting View""; ""References""
- ""Contributors"" ""Index""
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7660-5
- OCLC:
- 51481090
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