Full Description
As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees—defined by their shared culture and sense of identity—had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan.
After the ethnic label of "Yankee" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term "Midwesterner." So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America's Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.
Contents
ContentsIntroduction 000Yankees in New England and Beyond 000Yankees Come to Michigan 000Yankees on the Michigan Frontier 000The Flowering of Yankee Michigan 000The Industrialization of Yankee Michigan 000The Decline of Yankee Michigan 000SidebarsJohn Ball, Yankee Speculator 000Yankees in French Detroit, from Walter March, Shoepac Recollections, 1856 000The Pilgrim Oak of Michigan, from William Nowlin, The Bark Covered House, 1876 000Excerpts from ?Over the Hill to the Poor-House,? in Will Carleton, Farm Ballads, 1873 000The Congregationalist Revolt in Michigan 000?Little Yankees? versus the Railroads 000AppendicesAppendix 1. Three Favorite Yankee Recipes 000Appendix 2. Museums, Libraries, and Archives 000Notes 000For Further Reference 000Index 000
