Author: Robert R. PolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Geographical Analysis of Population Change in the Hill Land of Western Wisconsin, 1870-1950
Author: Robert R. PolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Wisconsin Land and Life
Author: Robert Clifford OstergrenPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV
Author: John D. BuenkerPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea."
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Geography and geology
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
A Bibliography of Dissertations in Geography, 1901 to 1969
Author: Clyde E. BrowningPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, Department of Geography
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The History of Wisconsin: The progressive era, 1893-1914
Author: The Geography of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley with Emphasis on Soil Resources of the Fluvial Terraces
Author: Gene Emil MusolfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Historical Geography of Lead and Zinc Mining in Southwest Wisconsin, 1820-1920
Author: Dale Roger FatzingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lead industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Urban Influences Upon Frontier and Commercial Agriculture
Author: Michael P. ConzenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural geography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description