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Author : Mary Josephine Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Population geography
ISBN : WISC:89098582240
Author : Stanley W. Trimble
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466555754
"This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance, generated in this case by agriculture, can spread an astonishing variety of altered hydrologic and sedi
Author : Robert Clifford Ostergren,Thomas R. Vale
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0299153541
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
Author : Richard N. Current
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206290
This second volume in the History of Wisconsin series introduces us to the first generation of statehood, from the conversion of prairie and forests into farmland to the development of cities and industry. In addition, this volume presents a synthesis of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Wisconsin. Scarcely a decade after entering the Union, the state was plunged into the nationwide debate over slavery, the secession crisis, and a war in which 11,000 "Badger Boys in Blue" gave their lives. Wisconsin's role in the Civil War is chronicled, along with the post-war years. Complete with photographs from the Historical Society's collections, as well as many pertinent maps, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in this era of Wisconsin's history.
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253000101
The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions and the anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.
Author : William E. Van Vugt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : British Americans
ISBN : 0252067576
From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
Author : Alice E. Smith
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206283
Published in 1973, this first volume in the History of Wisconsin series remains the definitive work on Wisconsin's beginnings, from the arrival of the French explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634, to the attainment of statehood in 1848. This volume explores how Wisconsin's Native American inhabitants, early trappers, traders, explorers, and many immigrant groups paved the way for the territory to become a more permanent society. Including nearly two dozen maps as well as illustrations of territorial Wisconsin and portraits of early residents, this volume provides an in-depth history of the beginnings of the state.
Author : University of Wisconsin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : WISC:89094309986
Author : Cian T. McMahon,Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040047163
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora. This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.
Author : Malcolm Campbell
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299223335
In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another “New World,” Australia. Ireland’s New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential “Irishness.” America’s Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled laborers congregating in cities, while Australia’s Irish, like their fellow colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how local conditions intersected with immigrants’ Irish backgrounds and traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland’s new worlds. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association “Well conceived and thoroughly researched . . . . This clearly written, thought-provoking work fulfills the considerable ambitions of comparative migration studies.”—Choice
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : MINN:31951001979786Z
Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951001830628L
Author : Don Whiteside,Douglas G. Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Lafayette County (Wis.)
ISBN : WISC:89038480349
Author : Margaret Walsh
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4395658
Author : Don Whiteside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89089008353