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1 online resource (xxiii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Creating the North American landscape
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Creating the North American landscape.
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| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index. |
| Contents |
The New England yankee homeland / Martyn J. Bowden -- The Pennsylvanian homeland / Richard Pillsbury -- Old Order Amish homelands / Ary J. Lamme III -- Blacks in the plantation South: unique homelands / Charles S. Aiken -- The Creole coast: homeland to substrate / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov -- Nouvelle Acadie: the Cajun homeland / Lawrence E. Estaville -- La tierra Tejana: a south Texas homeland / Daniel D. Arreola -- The Anglo-Texan homeland / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov -- The Kiowa homeland in Oklahoma / Steven M. Schnell -- The Highland-Hispano homeland / Richard L. Nostrand -- The Navajo homeland / Stephen C. Jett -- Mormondom's Deseret homeland / Lowell C. "Ben" Bennion -- California's emerging Russian homeland / Susan W. Hardwick -- Montana's emerging Montane homeland / John B. Wright -- American homelands: a dissenting view / Michael P. Conzen. |
| Summary |
Homelands explores the connection of people and place by showing how aspects of several different North American groups found their niche and created a homeland. It looks at geographical concepts in community settings. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States geography.
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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Human geography -- United States.
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Human geography. |
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United States -- Description and travel.
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Regionalism -- United States -- History.
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Regionalism. |
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History. |
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Place (Philosophy)
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Place (Philosophy) |
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Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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Ethnicity -- United States -- History.
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Ethnicity. |
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Immigrants -- United States -- History.
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Immigrants. |
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Minorities -- United States -- History.
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Minorities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Nostrand, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1939-
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Estaville, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Ernest)
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Center for American Places.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Homelands. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 0801867002 (DLC) 00012362 (OCoLC)45356646 |
| ISBN |
0801876605 (electronic book) |
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9780801876608 (electronic book) |
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0801867002 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801867002 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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