The Lure Book of Michigan's Upper Peninsula ...
Author: Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 104
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Published: 1935*
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aaron Shapiro
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013-03-30
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 0816688680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.
Author: Aaron Alex Shapiro
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9781452946764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resource.
Author: Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Published: 2022-12-29
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9523690809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond. The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures. Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michigan association for the protection and propagation of fish and game
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 34
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