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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-128) and index