Overview

What does it mean to be from somewhere? If most people in the United States are ""from some place else"" what is an American homeland? In answering these questions, the contributors to this discussion offer a geographical vision of territory and the formation of discrete communities in the USA today. The text discusses groups such as the Yankees in New England, Old Order Amish in Ohio, African Americans in the plantation South, Navajos in the Southwest, Russians in California, and several other peoples and places. The work explores the connection of people and place by showing how aspects of several different North American groups found their niche and created a homeland. Consisting of 15 essays, it is an innovative look at geographical concepts in community settings. It is also an exploration of the academic work taking place about homelands and their people, of how factors such as culture, settlement, and cartographic concepts come together in American sociology. There is much not only to study but also to celebrate about American homelands. The authors depict the cultural effects of immigrant settlement. The conviction that people need to participate in the life of the homeland to achieve their own self realization, within the traditions and comforts of that community. The work gives us a new map of the United States, a map drawn with people's lives and the land that is their home.

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Author:   Richard L. Nostrand (University of Oklahoma) ,  Lawrence E. Estaville (Professor and Director, Texas Atlas Project, Texas State University) ,  Lawrence E. Estaville Jr (Professor and Chair of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780801867002

ISBN 10:   0801867002
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   20 March 2002
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"Contents: Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America Contents: Chapter 1 Free Land, Dry Land, Home Land: Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville 2 The New England Yankee Homeland: Martyn J. Bowden 3 Th Pennsylvanian Homeland: Richard Pillsbury 4 Old Order Amish Homeland: Ary J. Lamme III 5 Upper Southern Ethnic and Ancestral Homelands: Michael O. Roark 6 Blacks in the Plantation South: Unique Homelands: Charles S. Aiken 7 The Creole Coast: Homeland to Substrate: Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov 8 Nouvelle Acadie The Cajun Homeland: Lawrence E. Estaville 9 La Tierra Tejana A South Texas Homeland: Daniel D. Arreola 10 The Anglo-Texan Homeland: Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov 11 The Navajo Homeland: Stephen C. Jett 12 The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma: Steven M. Schnell 13 The Highland-Hispano Homeland: Richard L. Nostrand 14 Mormondom's Deseret Homeland: Lowell C. ""Ben"" Bennion 15 California's Emerging Russian Homeland: Susan W. Hardwick 16 Homelands and Cultural Space in America in Comparative Perspective: Michael P. Conzen"

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<p> No one with more than a passing interest in the human geography of the United States can afford to pass up this collection of fourteen richly informative, specially commissioned essays... All [of which] are lucidly written and mercifully devoid of jargon, adequetely illustrated with maps and photos, and fully documented. -- Wilbur Zelinsky, Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Author Information

Richard L. Nostrand is a David Ross Boyd professor of geography at the University of OklahomaLawrence E. Estaville, Jr. is professor and chair of geography at Southwest Texas State University.

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