| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 567 pages) : illustrations |
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pt. 1. Natural environments and wild landscapes -- 1. From end moraines and alfisols to white pines and frigid winters : an introduction to the environmental systems of Wisconsin / Thomas R. Vale -- 2. Wisconsin's glacial landscapes / David M. Mickelson -- 3. Challenges of Wisconsin's weather and climate / Waltraud A.R. Brinkmann -- 4. Some patterns in the earth beneath our feet / Francis D. Hole -- 5. Easter white pine in southwestern Wisconsin : stability and change at different scales / Susy Svatek Ziegler -- 6. Wisconsin's vegetation history and the balancing of nature / Duane Griffin -- 7. Geography, Wisconsin, and the upland sandpiper / Robin P. White -- pt. 2. Settlement processes and cultural patterns -- 8. The Euro-American settlement of Wisconsin, 1830-1920 / Robert C. Ostergren -- 9. The European settling and transformation of the upper Mississippi Valley lead mining region / Michael P. Conzen -- 10. The creation of towns in Wisconsin / John C. Hudson -- 11. Lumbering : Wisconsin's northern urban frontier / Randall Rohe -- 12. Homes on the range : settling the Penokee-Gogebic iron ore district of northern Wisconsin and Michigan / Arnold R. Alanen -- 13. Polish routes to Americanization : house form and landscape on Milwaukee's Polish south side / Judith T. Kenny -- 14. Religious identity as ethnic identity : the Welsh in Waukesha County / Anne Kelly Knowles -- 15. Community building, conflict, and change : geographic perspectives on the Norwegian-American experience in frontier Wisconsin / Ann Marie Legreid -- 16. Americans by choice and circumstance : Dutch Protestant and Dutch Catholic immigrants in Wisconsin, 1850-1905 / Yda Schreuder -- 17. Four worlds without an Eden : pre-Columbian peoples and the Wisconsin landscape / William Gustav Gartner -- pt. 3. Regional economies and landscapes -- 18. Changing technology, values, and rural landscapes / Clarence W. Olmstead -- 19. Milwaukee's German renaissance twice-told : inventing and recycling landscape in America's German Athens / Steven Hoelscher, Jeffrey Zimmerman, and Timothy Bawden -- 20. The cultural landscape of Wisconsin's dairy farming / Ingolf Vogeler -- 21. A pretty strange place : nineteenth-century scenic tourism in the Dells / Steven Hoelscher -- 22. The northwoods : back to nature / Timothy Bawden -- 23. Northern exposures : bird's-eye views of nature and place on Wisconsin's Lake Superior coast during the summer of 1886 / Eric Olmanson -- 24. The geography of Ojibwa treaty rights in northern Wisconsin/ Thomas E. Pearson -- 26. Wisconsin is almost anywhere : generic places and the routinization of everyday life / Robert Sack -- Postscript : Wisconsin : place, time, model / Yi-Fu Tuan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
TRAVEL -- General.
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Geography
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| SUBJECT |
Wisconsin -- Geography
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| Subject |
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ostergren, Robert Clifford
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Vale, Thomas R., 1943-
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| ISBN |
0585081131 |
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9780585081137 |
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0299153533 |
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9780299153533 |
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