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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… More >>
The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier
Tags: commercialization, communal institutions, Community, community formation, Frontier, kalamazoo county, Life, market economy, Michigan, migrants, moving west, socioeconomic change, southwestern michigan, upper midwest, West, Yankee