Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out - Hardcover

Atkins, Annette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087351596X ISBN 13: 9780873515962

Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S., 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past.

 

A three-act play about Minnesota&;s statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu.

 

In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people&;s lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state. 

 

 

Annette Atkins is a faculty member at St. John&;s University and the College of St. Benedict and the author of Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873&;1878 (MHS Press) and We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 087351596X
• ISBN 13: 9780873515962
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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