Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780806192468
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0806192461
Content:
"Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're 'Up North,' a region that defies definition but is nonetheless unmistakable. In North Country, contributing scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explore the distinctive landscape, culture, and history manifested in the northern margins of the American Midwest"--
Content:
"Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're "Up North"--a region that's hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area--and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland. "--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780806191881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0806191880
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780806191898
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0806191899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780806191881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0806191880
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780806191898
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0806191899
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe North country Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2023 ISBN 9780806191881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780806191898
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Geschichte
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