Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvides an overview of North American ethnic landscapes and offers portrayals of some of the ethnic groups in the United States and Canada. Vernacular Architecture Newsletter
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Migration to North America: Before, during, and after the Nineteenth Century
Part II. Northeastern North America
Chapter 2. Acadians in Maritime Canada
Chapter 3. The Irish, English, and Scots in Ontario
Chapter 4. Germans in Ohio
Chapter 5. The Welsh in Ohio
Part III. Southeastern North America
Chapter 6. The Scotch-Irish and English in Appalachia
Chapter 7. American Indians in the Eastern United States
Chapter 8. French Creoles on the Gulf Coast
Chapter 9. African-Americans in the American South
Chapter 10. Cajuns in Louisiana
Part IV. Central North America
Chapter 11. Belgians in Wisconsin
Chapter 12. Danes in Iowa and Minnesota
Chapter 13. Norwegians in Wisconsin
Chapter 14. Finns in the Lake Superior Region
Chapter 15. German-Russian Mennonites in Manitoba
Chapter 16. Czechs in South Dakota
Part V. Western North America
Chapter 17. Ukrainians in Western Canada
Chapter 18. The Navajo in the American Southwest
Chapter 19. Spanish Americans in New Mexico's Rio Arriba
Chapter 20. Germans in Texas
Chapter 21. Basques in the American West
Part VI. Conclusion
Chapter 22. The Immigrant Experience in the Nineteenth Century and Afterwards
Glossary
Notes
References
Contributors
Index
