Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-twentieth Century

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 384 páginas
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph C
 

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The Founding Generation and the Creation of a New England
11
From the Americanization to the ReAnglicization of Regional Identity 16601760
35
Regionalism and Nationalism in the Early Republic The American Geographies of Jedidiah Morse
79
Greater New England Antebellum Regional Identity and the Yankee North
123
Old New England Nostalgia Reaction and Reform in the Colonial Revival 18701910
203
The North Country and Regional Identity From Robert Frost to the Rise of Yankee Magazine 19141940
263
Toward PostYankee New England
310
Notes
317
Index
365
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Joseph A. Conforti is professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. His previous books include Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture.

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