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A short history of Wisconsin / Erika Janik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janik, Erika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wisconsin-History.
- Wisconsin-Social conditions.
- Wisconsin-Politics and government.
- Wisconsin--History.
- Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin--Social conditions.
- Wisconsin--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik shows how Wisconsin was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new inhabitants, and upheavals in society and politics that shaped the nation. Swift, authoritative, and compulsively readable, A Short History of Wisconsin commences with the glaciers that hewed the region's breathtaking terrain, early Native American cultures, and French explorers and traders, and moves through the civil war and two world wars, covers advances in the rights of women, workers, African Americans, and Indians, and recent shifts involving the environmental movement and the conservative revolution of the late twentieth century. But only part of the story lies in sweeping societal change: Janik finds the story of a state not only in the broad strokes of immigration and politics, but in the daily lives shaped by work, leisure, sports, and culture. A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.
- Contents:
- Geography of place
- Fortunes made of fur
- From territory to statehood
- Calling Wisconsin home
- Lead and lumber
- Social and moral improvement
- Civil War Wisconsin
- Becoming America's dairyland
- Manufacturing the future
- The sporting life
- Progressive politics
- World War I
- Changing habits of consumption
- Depression
- World War II
- Culture of fear
- Migration and civil rights
- Vietnam
- Greening Wisconsin
- The changing face of immigration
- Indian treaty rights
- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution
- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87020-473-4
- OCLC:
- 923517561
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