Imagining New England : Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Imagining New England : Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century

The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions and their imagining have been disrupted, developed, and reborn over the past four centuries. New England as a region both "historically grounded and culturally invented" (5). From the author: "Though my analysis acknowledges, indeed traces, Puritan-Yankee continuities in regional culture, it emphasizes how tradition remains, or, rather, becomes, tradition by a continual process of invention and reinvention" (5). Written by a professor of New England and American Studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Conforti, Joseph A.

University of North Carolina Press

2001

en

Book

16th century - 20th century; New England

9780807826256

384

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

University of North Carolina Press

http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1004

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