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Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Center for American Places.
Nostrand, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1939-
Estaville, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Ernest)
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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