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The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America

James D. McNiven

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Description:Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Though shrouded in myth and routinely used as a substitute for American, the achievements of the Yankees have influenced nearly every facet of our modern way of life. Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, US 20. The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a travel narrative, taking the reader on a journey through the places Yankees and their descendants settled as they expanded westward. Using a physical road to connect locations important to the Yankee cultural ‘road’, McNiven takes us on twenty-two side trips into individual stories, introducing readers to the origins of such large-scale and diverse ideas as conservation, telegraphy, mass production, religion, and women’s rights. See familiar places and stories in a different light, such as the fight for women’s rights in Seneca Falls and the Walden Pond that Thoreau made famous. Learn about less familiar venues like Route 128’s technology companies on nearby leftover airbases that led to the creation of the computer industry and to the Worcester suburb of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where two old women changed the world by making possible the birth control pill. McNiven’s first tour goes as far west as the Pennsylvania border with New York, with more stories to come.As we go along The Yankee Road, we will meet some of the men and women who made these ideas happen. Harry Truman once said, ‘I like roads. I like to move.’ This is a road book. Come on along.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America. To get started finding The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 545

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Wheatmark

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1627871411

Description: Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Though shrouded in myth and routinely used as a substitute for American, the achievements of the Yankees have influenced nearly every facet of our modern way of life. Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, US 20. The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a travel narrative, taking the reader on a journey through the places Yankees and their descendants settled as they expanded westward. Using a physical road to connect locations important to the Yankee cultural ‘road’, McNiven takes us on twenty-two side trips into individual stories, introducing readers to the origins of such large-scale and diverse ideas as conservation, telegraphy, mass production, religion, and women’s rights. See familiar places and stories in a different light, such as the fight for women’s rights in Seneca Falls and the Walden Pond that Thoreau made famous. Learn about less familiar venues like Route 128’s technology companies on nearby leftover airbases that led to the creation of the computer industry and to the Worcester suburb of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where two old women changed the world by making possible the birth control pill. McNiven’s first tour goes as far west as the Pennsylvania border with New York, with more stories to come.As we go along The Yankee Road, we will meet some of the men and women who made these ideas happen. Harry Truman once said, ‘I like roads. I like to move.’ This is a road book. Come on along.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America. To get started finding The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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