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Author : Necia Ann Musser
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Michigan
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Author : Necia Ann Musser
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Michigan
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1906
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Missions
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No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
Author : Necia A. Musser
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Necia Ann Musser
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Page : 1644 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Michigan
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Clergy
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Author : Susan E. Gray
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 080786174X
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 of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America.
Author : Necia Ann Musser
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Missions
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Congregational churches
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Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.
Author : Robert P. Swierenga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Old Wing Mission is a historical treasure of rare documents giving the account of Reverend George N. and Arvilla Smith in their work and social interactions with Native Americans at a Christian mission colony. / "On the American frontier natives and newcomers met in many places, but nowhere was the encounter more profound than at the Christian mission. Here missionaries sought not only to save Indian souls but to Americanize them. . . . As told through a remarkable set of original sources, the story of the Old Wing Mission reveals all the tensions and complexities when one culture seeks to change another. Old Wing Mission offers readers an opportunity to hear voices on both sides of the cultural divide. . . . Deserves a wide and appreciative audience." James P. Ronda, University of Tulsa / "Meticulous. . . . The Smith diaries recount the trials of frontier missionaries. . . . Academicians, Christian scholars, and readers who love history will all benefit from this high-quality work." James M. McClurken, Michigan State University