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The Yankee West

Community Life on the Michigan Frontier

By: Susan E. Gray

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Paperback | 25 November 1996

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Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Yankee culture was a type of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America. |Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation.

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[P]rovides an innovative and sophisticated look at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and national influences on western development."American Historical Review" ï¿½Pï¿½rovides an innovative and sophisticated look at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and national influences on western development."American Historical Review" "[P]rovides an innovative and sophisticated look at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and national influences on western development."American Historical Review"" Creates a detailed portrait of an otherwise underdocumented site of westward expansion. "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction. The Yankee West and the """"Universal Yankee Nation""""	p. 1
Those Desirous of Removing to the Kalamazoo: The Designs Of Settlement	p. 17
This Walking Before Creeping Will Never Answer 2: The Necessary Market	p. 43
The Unhallowed Dicker Traffic 3: The Necessary Neighbors	p. 67
Spoiling the Whole 4: Families And Farming	p. 91
A Pretty Joining of God and Mammon: Religion And Community	p. 119
All of the Whiggs and Some of the Democrats Politics and Community	p. 139
Conclusion. The Foundations of an Empire	p. 169
Appendix	p. 179
Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 221
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