Wisconsin: A HistoryUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 599 pages Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition. |
Contents
PART ONE The Land Its People and European Empires | 3 |
Physiographic diagram of Wisconsin | 7 |
Native vegetation | 9 |
Land classes | 11 |
Growing seasons | 13 |
The state in 1973 | 15 |
The French period | 33 |
PART TWO From American Ownership to Control 17751816 | 47 |
Population and railroad development 1860 | 321 |
Population and railroad development 1870 | 323 |
Population and railroad development 1880 | 325 |
Population and railroad development 1900 | 327 |
PART SEVEN Politics and the Melting Pot 18651890 | 339 |
The Melting Pot | 341 |
Politics of Complacency | 362 |
Politics of Protest | 381 |
The early American period | 57 |
PART THREE Settlement Exploitation and Organization | 91 |
Indian cessions | 98 |
Territorial jurisdictions 18001838 12425 | 124 |
PART FOUR Yankees and Europeans Build a State 18301860 147 11 Patterns of Settlement | 149 |
Pioneer Life | 163 |
Opportunities | 179 |
Transportation | 190 |
PART FIVE Statehood in an Unstable Union 18461865 | 209 |
Statehood | 211 |
The Uneasy Years the 1850s | 226 |
Civil War | 242 |
PART SIX A New Economy Emerges 18601900 | 263 |
The Civil War and the Economy | 267 |
King Wheat Dethroned | 280 |
Empire in Pine | 296 |
Rails Commerce and Industry | 313 |
Population of Wisconsin 1850 | 319 |
PART EIGHT The Laboratory of Democracy 18901919 | 399 |
La Follette | 401 |
The Fruits of Progressivism | 419 |
Progressivism Falters | 435 |
PART NINE Between the Wars | 457 |
The 1920s | 459 |
Depression Decade | 476 |
PART TEN Adjustments to Maturity 19401980 | 497 |
Problems of a Mature Economy | 499 |
Realignments Social and Political | 527 |
Governors and Elections | 563 |
Wisconsin Votes in Presidential Elections | 569 |
Population of Wisconsin | 573 |
One Hundred Ten Years of Wisconsin Cities | 574 |
General Bibliography | 577 |
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