Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present - Hardcover

Judd, Richard W.; Churchill, Edwin A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891010815 ISBN 13: 9780891010814

Publisher: Univ of Maine Pr, 1994

Synopsis

The first comprehensive history of Maine to be published in decades, Maine: The Pine Tree State surveys the region's rich history from prehistoric times to the early 1990s. Drawing on a team of twenty-six scholars with a professional interest in Maine's past, the book features fresh research and new interpretations of even familiar periods such as the Civil War.
The chapter authors are respected authorities in Maine history from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and the various sub-disciplines of history: political, cultural, economic, labor, military, maritime.
Certain themes recur from chapter to chapter and across historical periods. For example, larger structural changes in the nation - market trends, wars, economic fluctuations, demographic flows - strongly affected the everyday world of Maine people. Other prominent themes are the importance of geography and the environment in shaping Maine's economy and culture.
Caught up at times in national events, Maine has also led the nation in important ways. Its fishing industry fed and its textile industry clothed the nation's people. Maine loggers contributed heavily to the technologies used in cutting, hauling, and driving timber. Maine excelled in the production of wooden ships and supplied the expertise to sail them. In the nineteenth century Maine's political leaders were among the most powerful in the nation, and Maine's contribution to social reform attracted national recognition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Maine Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0891010815
• ISBN 13: 9780891010814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 616
• Editor: Eastman Joel W.