Title & Author:

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.

Description:

xxiii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index.
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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801867002 (alk. paper)
9780801867002 (alk. paper)

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.
Cultural geography United States.
Géographie culturelle États-Unis.
Régionalisme États-Unis Histoire.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Diversité culturelle États-Unis Histoire.
Ethnicité États-Unis Histoire.
Immigrants États-Unis Histoire.
Minorités États-Unis Histoire.
Cultural geography
Civilization
Cultural pluralism
Ethnicity
Geography
Human geography
Immigrants
Minorities
Regionalism
Travel
Kulturelle Identität
Räumliche Identität
Plurale samenleving.
Regionalisme.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Plaats.
Diversity
Cultural pluralism United States.
Ethnicity United States.
Minorities United States.
Régionalisme États-Unis.
Pluralisme (sciences sociales) États-Unis.
Ethnicité États-Unis.
Immigrés États-Unis.
Minorités États-Unis.
Géographie humaine États-Unis.
Multiculturalisme Etats-Unis Histoire.
Communautés Etats-Unis Histoire.
United States Geography.
United States Civilization.
United States Description and travel.
États-Unis Géographie.
États-Unis Civilisation.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages.
United States
USA
Etats-Unis Civilisation.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Nostrand, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1939-
Estaville, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Ernest)
Center for American Places.
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220278
Call No.: E161.3 H6 2001
Status: Available