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Title Wisconsin land and life / edited by Robert C. Ostergren and Thomas R. Vale.

Publication Info. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 567 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Natural environments and wild landscapes -- 1. From end moraines and alfisols to white pines and frigid winters : an introduction to the environmental systems of Wisconsin / Thomas R. Vale -- 2. Wisconsin's glacial landscapes / David M. Mickelson -- 3. Challenges of Wisconsin's weather and climate / Waltraud A.R. Brinkmann -- 4. Some patterns in the earth beneath our feet / Francis D. Hole -- 5. Easter white pine in southwestern Wisconsin : stability and change at different scales / Susy Svatek Ziegler -- 6. Wisconsin's vegetation history and the balancing of nature / Duane Griffin -- 7. Geography, Wisconsin, and the upland sandpiper / Robin P. White -- pt. 2. Settlement processes and cultural patterns -- 8. Euro-American settlement of Wisconsin, 1830-1920 / Robert C. Ostergren -- 9. European settling and transformation of the upper Mississippi Valley lead mining region / Michael P. Conzen -- 10. Creation of towns in Wisconsin / John C. Hudson -- 11. Lumbering : Wisconsin's northern urban frontier / Randall Rohe -- 12. Homes on the range : settling the Penokee-Gogebic iron ore district of northern Wisconsin and Michigan / Arnold R. Alanen -- 13. Polish routes to Americanization : house form and landscape on Milwaukee's Polish south side / Judith T. Kenny -- 14. Religious identity as ethnic identity : the Welsh in Waukesha County / Anne Kelly Knowles -- 15. Community building, conflict, and change : geographic perspectives on the Norwegian-American experience in frontier Wisconsin / Ann Marie Legreid -- 16. Americans by choice and circumstance : Dutch Protestant and Dutch Catholic immigrants in Wisconsin, 1850-1905 / Yda Schreuder -- 17. Four worlds without an Eden : pre-Columbian peoples and the Wisconsin landscape / William Gustav Gartner -- pt. 3. Regional economies and landscapes -- 18. Changing technology, values, and rural landscapes / Clarence W. Olmstead -- 19. Milwaukee's German renaissance twice-told : inventing and recycling landscape in America's German Athens / Steven Hoelscher, Jeffrey Zimmerman, and Timothy Bawden -- 20. Cultural landscape of Wisconsin's dairy farming / Ingolf Vogeler -- 21. A pretty strange place : nineteenth-century scenic tourism in the Dells / Steven Hoelscher -- 22. Northwoods : back to nature / Timothy Bawden -- 23. Northern exposures : bird's-eye views of nature and place on Wisconsin's Lake Superior coast during the summer of 1886 / Eric Olmanson -- 24. Geography of Ojibwa treaty rights in northern Wisconsin/ Thomas E. Pearson -- 26. Wisconsin is almost anywhere : generic places and the routinization of everyday life / Robert Sack -- Postscript : Wisconsin : place, time, model / Yi-Fu Tuan.
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Subject Wisconsin -- Geography.
Wisconsin.
Geography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ostergren, Robert Clifford.
Vale, Thomas R., 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Wisconsin land and life. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997 0299153509 (DLC) 96036447 (OCoLC)35586659
ISBN 0585081131 (electronic book)
9780585081137 (electronic book)
0299153509 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0299153541 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780299153502 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780299153540 (paperback ; alkaline paper)