Amato, Joseph Anthony
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Rethinking home : a case for writing local history
Item
Identifier: 99946-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Abstract
Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While...
Dates:
Copyright: 2002
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Servants of the land : God, family, and farm : the trinity of Belgian economic folkways in southwestern Minnesota
Item
Identifier: 3332-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Getting and keeping the land -- The coming of the Belgians -- The Louwagies -- Rivalry with the French-Canadians -- "Big barns and little houses" -- Quick to forsake the land -- Plowing with pencils -- The trinity of faith, land, and family -- Hector and Ida Louwagie -- Peasant-capitalists.
Dates:
Copyright: 1990
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Southwest Minnesota : a place of many places
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Identifier: 6255-RefShelf-General
Abstract
"This book's immediate predecessor drew on the writings of many southwest Minnesota authors to create a portrait of the land and its peoples. In this book, Amato and Pichaske explore the region's rich culture in their own words. From Amato's analysis of regional lead cities like Worthington and New Ulm to Pichaske's meditations on smaller towns like Minneota, Slayton, and Hanley Falls, the authors examine the ways this region has reacted to the changes and challenges of the late twentieth...
Dates:
Copyright: 2007
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Southwest Minnesota : the land and the people
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Identifier: 99947-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Dates:
Publication: 2000
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The decline of rural Minnesota
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Identifier: 5817-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Dates:
Copyright: 1993
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The great Jerusalem artichoke circus : the buying and selling of the rural American dream
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Identifier: 99945-RefShelf-General
Abstract
In 1981, near the end of the second post-World War II energy crisis and at the onset of the nation's most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it called a 'providential plant' destined to be a new and saving crop: the Jerusalem artichoke. In this book, the author tells the story of the failed attempt by a less-than-honest businessman to introduce this new crop to a depressed agricultural region of the United States.
Dates:
Copyright: 1993
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
To call it home : the new immigrants of southwestern Minnesota
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Identifier: 99912-RefShelf-General
Abstract
Information about the newest wave of immigrants to southwestern Minnesota--Africans, Asians, and Hispanics. Responds to such questions as who the newcomers are, why they came, and what they experience upon arrival there. Gives special attention to matters of social services, housing, school, and crime. Seeks a comparative understanding of migration patterns and the different experiences of several food-processing cities in southwestern Minnesota.
Dates:
Copyright: 1996
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
When father and son conspire : a Minnesota farm murder
Item
Identifier: 3245-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Dates:
Publication: 1988
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
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- Agriculture -- Minnesota -- Lyon County -- History. 2
- Lyon County (Minn.) -- Social life and customs. 2
- Minnesota -- Description and travel. 2
- Minnesota -- Emigration and immigration. 2
- Minnesota -- History, Local. 2
- Minnesota -- Pictorial works. 2
- Sociology, Rural -- Minnesota. 2
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota. 1
- American Energy Farming Systems. 1
- American literature -- Middle West 1
- Belgian Americans -- Minnesota -- Lyon County -- History. 1
- Belgian Americans -- Minnesota -- Lyon County -- Social life and customs. 1
- Belgium -- Emigration and immigration. 1
- Calumets -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- History 1
- City and town life -- Literary collections 1
- City and town life -- Middle West 1
- Community life -- Minnesota. 1
- Country life 1
- Country life -- Social aspects 1
- Country life -- United States 1
- Disaster relief -- Minnesota. 1
- Drainage -- Minnesota -- Murray County -- History. 1
- Emergency management -- Minnesota. 1
- Farm life -- Social aspects 1
- Fathers and sons -- Minnesota -- Case studies. 1
- Flemings -- Minnesota -- Lyon County -- Social life and customs. 1
- Floods -- Minnesota. 1
- Ghent (Minn.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Horticultural products industry -- United States 1
- Immigrants -- Minnesota. 1
- Immigrants -- Services for -- Minnesota. 1
- Jenkins, James. 1
- Jenkins, Steven, 1965- 1
- Land settlement -- Minnesota -- Historiography 1
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- Local history -- Philosophy 1
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- Minnesota -- Rural conditions 1
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- Minorities -- Minnesota. 1
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- Murder -- Minnesota -- Case studies. 1
- Murray County (Minn.) -- Environmental conditions. 1
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- Outdoor life -- Social aspects 1
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- Population geography -- Minnesota. 1
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