| Description |
1 online resource (83 pages) : illustrations |
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Discovering the peoples of Michigan |
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Discovering the peoples of Michigan.
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| Contents |
Greece and the American imagination -- The Greek War of Independence: the 1821 Detroit Press coverage -- Going to the "Ksentia": the mass migration, 1891-1921 -- Greek communities in Michigan -- Public presentation of ethnicity -- The man with the branded hand -- American-Greek Society in Michigan, 2001 and beyond |
| Summary |
The influence of Greek culture on Michigan began long before the first Greeks arrived. The American settlers of the Old Northwest Territory had definite notions of Greeks and Greek culture. America and its developing society and culture were to be the ""New Athens, "" a locale where the resurgence in the values and ideals of classical Greece were to be reborn. Stavros K. Frangos describes how such preconceptions and the competing desires to retain heritage and to assimilate have shaped the Greek experience in Michigan. From the padrone system to the church communities, Greek institut |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-77) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Greek Americans -- Michigan -- History
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Greek Americans -- Michigan -- Social conditions
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Ethnic relations
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Greek Americans
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Greek Americans -- Social conditions
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Michigan -- Ethnic relations
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Michigan -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Michigan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004015880 |
| ISBN |
9780870139147 |
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0870139142 |
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9781628961911 |
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1628961910 |
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