Nostrand / Estaville Homelands

A Geography of Culture and Place across America
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7660-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Creating the North American Landscape

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 Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America offer a geographical vision of territory and the formation of discrete communities in the U.S. today. Homelands 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.

Homelands explores the connection of people and place by showing how aspects of several different North American groups found their niche and created a homeland. A collection of fifteen essays, Homelands 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. As the editors state, "Underlying today's pluralistic society are homelands—large and small, strong and weak—that endure in some way. The mosaic of homelands to which people bonded in greater or lesser degrees, affirms in a holistic way America's diversity, its pluralistic society."

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. Homelands gives us a new map of the United States, a map drawn with people's lives and the land that is their home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nostrand, Richard L.

Estaville, Lawrence E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.