Imagining New England : explorations of regional identity from the pilgrims to the mid-twentieth century /

An investigation of New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. It incorporates insights from history, literature, art, culture and geography to show how generations of New Englanders created a powerful collective identity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conforti, Joseph A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Regionalism > New England > History.
Group identity > New England > History.
Régionalisme > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
Identité collective > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la littérature.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Civilization
Group identity
Historiography
Intellectual life
Literature
Regionalism
Regionaal bewustzijn.
Identiteit.
Mythevorming.
Stereotypen.
New England > Civilization.
New England > Intellectual life.
New England > Historiography.
New England > In literature.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Civilisation.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Historiographie.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Dans la littérature.
New England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The founding generation and the creation of a New England
  • From the Americanization to the re-Anglicization of regional identity, 1660-1760
  • Regionalism and nationalism in the early republic: the American geographies of Jedidiah Morse
  • Greater New England: Antebellum regional identity and Yankee north
  • Old New England: nostalgia, reaction, and reform in the colonial revival, 1870-1910
  • The north country and regional identity: from Robert Frost to the rise of Yankee magazine, 1914-1940.

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