Here and Everywhere Else

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A01=Andrew Witmer
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agrarian life in nineteenth-century Maine
Althea French
American nationalism
Ann Pennington
Anne Gerristein
Anne Gerritsen
Anthony Kaye
Appalachian pinnacles
Arjun Appadurai
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Barren
Benjamin Looker
Betsey Goodell
Borestone
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Charles Davison
Civil War
Colonial era
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cultural history of Monson
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Dirigo and Hebron Pond quarries
Doreen Massey
Eloise Stevens
Enlightenment cosmopolitanism
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Estella Bennett
First World War
Genevieve Jackson Beckwith
Glenn Poole
Greenfield Hill
Henry Hoar
Homer Hill
Jack Baker
Jane Brox
Jeffrey Bilbro
Johann Neem
John Fea
John Francis Sprague
John Mack Faragher
Joseph Amato
Kenneth Shefsiek
Lake Hebron
land dispossession in Maine
Language_English
Local history
local identities
local responses to industrialization
Maine
Maine local history
Maine quarrying industry history
Maine town incorporation
Marla Miller
Mary Babson Fuhrer
Michael Batinski
Microhistory
microhistory of American towns
mill economy i
Monson Historical Society
Monson to the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad
national identity
nationalism
New England frontier settlements
New England migration to Maine
Nicole Etcheson
nineteenth-century community
nineteenth-century rural communities
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painter Seth Steward
Penobscot land history
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rural modernization in the 20th century
rural people
rural settlement patterns in the 1800s
Sarah Homer
Sarah Mathews
Second Great Awakening
Shailer Mathews
Silicon Valley
small-town Maine
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Tef Poe
Thomas Bender
Timothy Dwight
Wallace Homer
Walter Johnson
War of 1812
William Hoar
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781625346650
  • Weight: 165g
  • Dimensions: 151 x 227mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer reveals the sometimes surprising ways that this small New England town engaged with the wider world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Townspeople fought and died in distant wars, transformed the economy and landscape with quarries and mills, and used railroads, highways, print, and new technologies to forge connections with the rest of the nation.

Here and Everywhere Else starts with Monson's incorporation in the early nineteenth century, when central Maine was considered the northern frontier and over 90 percent of Americans still lived in rural areas; it ends with present-day attempts to revive this declining Maine town into an artists' colony. Engagingly written, with colorful portraits of local characters and landmarks, this study illustrates how the residents of this remote place have remade their town by integrating (and resisting) external influences.

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