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Author Wilson, Brian C

Title Yankees in Michigan / Brian C. Wilson
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 140 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Discovering the peoples of Michigan
Discovering the peoples of Michigan.
Contents Yankees in New England and beyond -- Yankees come to Michigan -- Yankees on the Michigan frontier -- The flowering of Yankee Michigan -- The industrialization of Yankee Michigan -- The decline of Yankee Michigan
Summary As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees-defined by their shared culture and sense of identity-had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan. After the ethnic label of ""Yankee"" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term ""Midwesterner."" So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America''s Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-128) and index
Subject New Englanders -- Michigan -- History
Pioneers -- Michigan -- History
Internal migrants -- Michigan -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan
Regionalism -- Michigan -- History
Regionalism -- Middle West -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Frontier and pioneer life
Internal migrants
Manners and customs
New Englanders
Pioneers
Regionalism
Social conditions
SUBJECT Michigan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084697
Michigan -- Social life and customs
Michigan -- Social conditions
Subject Michigan
Middle West
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008015190
ISBN 9780870139703
0870139703
9781628961768
1628961767