This title shows how New Englanders forged Michigan's identity. As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees - defined by their shared culture and sense of identity - had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan.After the ethnic label of 'Yankee' fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term 'Midwesterner.' So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America's Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.
- ISBN10 0870138251
- ISBN13 9780870138256
- Publish Date 31 August 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Michigan State University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 140
- Language English