Title & Author:

To build in a new land : ethnic landscapes in North America / edited by Allen G. Noble.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
©1992

Description:

x, 455 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 26 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-444) and index.
Migration to North America : before, during, and after the nineteenth century / Allen G. Noble -- Acadians in maritime Canada / Peter Ennals -- The Irish, English, and Scots in Ontario / Brian Coffey -- Germans in Ohio / Hubert G.H. Wilhelm -- The Welsh in Ohio / Michael T. Struble and Hubert G.H. Wilhelm -- The Scotch-Irish and English in Appalachia / John B. Rehder -- American Indians in the Eastern United States / Frank W. Porter III -- French Creoles on the Gulf Coast ; African-Americans in the American South / Philippe Oszuscik -- Cajuns in Louisiana / Malcolm L. Comeaux -- Belgians in Wisconsin / William G. Laatsch and Charles F. Calkins -- Danes in Iowa and Minnesota / Signe T. Nielsen Betsinger.
Norwegians in Wisconsin / William H. Tishler -- Finns in the Lake Superior region / Matti Enn Kaups -- German-Russian Mennonites in Manitoba / Allen G. Noble -- Czechs in South Dakota / John E. Rau -- Ukrainians in Western Canada / John C. Lehr -- The Navajo in the American Southwest / Stephen C. Jett -- Spanish Americans in New Mexico's Río Arriba / Alvar W. Carlson -- Germans in Texas / Gerlinde Leiding -- Basques in the American West / William A. Douglass -- The immigrant experience in the nineteenth century and afterwards / Allen G. Noble.

Summary:

"Provides an overview of North American ethnic landscapes and offers portrayals of some of the ethnic groups in the United States and Canada."-- Vernacular Architecture Newsletter. Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of southeastern Manitoba, Afro-American housing in the southeastern United States, and the regional variations of Irish, English, and Scottish construction in Ontario.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801841887
9780801841880
0801841895 (pbk.)
9780801841897 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ethnology United States.
Ethnology Canada.
Material culture United States.
Material culture Canada.
Human geography United States.
Human geography Canada.
Ethnology.
Cultural geography United States.
Cultural geography Canada.
Anthropology, Cultural
Ethnologie États-Unis.
Ethnologie Canada.
Culture matérielle États-Unis.
Culture matérielle Canada.
Géographie culturelle États-Unis.
Géographie culturelle Canada.
Ethnologie.
Cultural geography
Geography
Human geography
Material culture
Nationale Minderheit
Aufsatzsammlung
Materiële cultuur.
Géographie humaine États-Unis.
Géographie humaine Canada.
United States Geography.
Canada Geography.
United States
Canada
Nordamerika
Ethnic groups History
North America

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Noble, Allen G., 1930-2021, editor.
Noble, Allen G., 1930-
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73762
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B1821
Status: Available