| Yankees in Michigan Subjects: New Englanders -- Michigan -- History; Pioneers -- Michigan -- History; Internal migrants -- Michigan -- History; Michigan -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan; Michigan -- Social life and customs; Michigan -- Social conditions; Regionalism -; 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.
Brian C. Wilson is Chair and professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Christianity. |