Old and new New Englanders : immigration & regional identity in the Gilded Age /

"In Old and New New Englanders, Bluford Adams provides a reenvisioning of New England's history and regional identity by exploring the ways the arrival of waves of immigrants from Europe and Canada transformed what it meant to be a New Englander during the Gilded Age. Adams's interven...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adams, Bluford (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Group identity > New England.
Regionalism > New England.
Identité collective > Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Régionalisme > Nouvelle-Angleterre.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > General.
Group identity
Regionalism
Einwanderung
Gruppenidentität
Regionale Identität
New England > History > 19th century.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
New England
Neuengland
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Regional identity in an age of immigration
  • World conquerors or a dying people? Racial theory, regional anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists
  • New Ireland, New France, New England: the place of immigrants in American regionalism
  • New England delicacy: immigration and the regional body
  • "Rural New England is in a state of transition": immigrants and Yankees on the land
  • The new New England: Yankees and immigrants in the Old Northwest
  • Coda: "The pilgrims were illegal aliens."

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