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One day for democracy : Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range immigrants
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- Creator
- Mary Lou Nemanic
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 252 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780821417300, 0821417304, 0821442244, 9780821442241
- OCLC
- ocn298788973, ocm77270634
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 225-240) and index.
- Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992" -- Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism -- The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905 -- One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24 -- The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41 -- The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92 -- Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century
Subjects
- European Americans -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs.
- European Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota.
- Fourth of July celebrations -- Minnesota -- History.
- Immigrants -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs.
- Miners -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs.
- Iron ranges -- Minnesota -- History.
- Minnesota -- Social life and customs.
- Minnesota -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History.
- Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History.
- Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History.