Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville.
Material type: TextSeries: Creating the North American landscapePublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Description: xxiii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0801867002 (alk. paper)
- 9780801867002 (alk. paper)
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Civilization
- Human geography -- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- Regionalism -- United States -- History
- Place (Philosophy)
- Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History
- Ethnicity -- United States -- History
- Immigrants -- United States -- History
- Minorities -- United States -- History
- E161.3 .H66 2001
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"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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.