Grasslands Grown : Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies /

"An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America's northern grasslands"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rozum, Molly Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Regionalism.
Human ecology.
Grasslands.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Ecology.
Cultural geography.
Civilization.
Grasslands > Canada.
Grasslands > United States.
Cultural geography > Great Plains.
Human ecology > Great Plains.
Frontier and pioneer life > Great Plains.
Colonists > Great Plains > Social life and customs.
Regionalism > Great Plains.
United States.
Great Plains.
Canada.
Great Plains > Environmental conditions > 19th century.
Great Plains > Civilization > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Looking northwest from La Verendrye Hill
  • Parents' choice : taking root on the northern grasslands
  • Small worlds : animal friends, foes, and place rhythms
  • Sensing grasses, grains, waters, woods, rocks, and snow
  • "The purple hills beckoned" : growing up, travel, education, and region
  • "Old woman who never dies" and "old man's garden" : settler and indigenous relations over the generations
  • "All is so still-so big, I scarce can speak" : new literature and settler society aesthetics
  • "Surely grass is the great mother of all plains agriculture" : agricultural adaptation and grasslands conservation
  • "All that vast region of grass land" : the United States, Canada, and changing cultural geography
  • Conclusion: Looking across the line from the prairies and plains.

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