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Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America
- Title
- Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- xxiii, 318 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Creating the North American landscape
- Subject
- Human geography > United States
- Regionalism > United States > History
- Place (Philosophy)
- Cultural pluralism > United States > History
- Ethnicity > United States > History
- Immigrants > United States > History
- Minorities > United States > History
- United States > Geography
- United States > Civilization
- United States > Description and travel
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- IXZ 02-3360
- ISBN
- 0801867002 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00012362
- OCLC
- 45356646
- Title
- Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Series
- Creating the North American landscape
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-306) and index.
- Added Author
- Nostrand, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1939-Estaville, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Ernest)Center for American Places.
- Research Call Number
- IXZ 02-3360