The southwestern Wisconsin town of New Glarus known internationally for its annual Wilhelm Tell festival, and for decades a favorite cultural destination of tourists and visitors to Wisconsin comes vividly into focus in Steven D. Hoelscher's many-layered examination of the invention of ethnic place in "America's Little Switzerland." Drawing on sociology, social history, ethnic studies, performance studies, geography, and history, Hoelscher opens up a timely, richly informative and provocative discussion of the ways in which landscape, heritage, and the search for authenticity create...
The southwestern Wisconsin town of New Glarus known internationally for its annual Wilhelm Tell festival, and for decades a favorite cultural destinat...
A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works.
The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology,...
A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologi...
