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Wisconsin: A HISTORY
Richard Nelson Current
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Description for Wisconsin: A HISTORY
paperback. A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the 'Wisconsin Idea' of efficient state government to ski-tows and speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of American culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
A haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early explorers and gangsters to sports heroes and cheeseheads.
Both the Ringling Brothers' "World's Greatest Shows" and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" originated in Wisconsin, along with the typewriter, Johnson's Wax, and the first automatic assembly line (for manufacturing automobile frames). Wisconsin inventors contributed to the mechanization of American farms by developing harvesters, reapers, cultivators, threshers, and ... Read more
A haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early explorers and gangsters to sports heroes and cheeseheads.
Both the Ringling Brothers' "World's Greatest Shows" and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" originated in Wisconsin, along with the typewriter, Johnson's Wax, and the first automatic assembly line (for manufacturing automobile frames). Wisconsin inventors contributed to the mechanization of American farms by developing harvesters, reapers, cultivators, threshers, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252070181
SKU
V9780252070181
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Ref
99-50
About Richard Nelson Current
Richard Nelson Current taught history at Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin, among other institutions, and has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including several on Wisconsin history: Pine Logs and Politics: A Life of Philetus Sawyer, 1816-1900, The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It, and The History of Wisconsin: The Civil War Era, 1848-1873. ... Read more
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