by Robert C. Nesbit revised by William F. Thompson
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-299-10804-5
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert C. Nesbit is professor emeritus of American history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was active in reviving Wisconsin history as a regular course offering. He is also the author of The History of Wisconsin, Volume III: Urbanization and Industrialization, 1873–1893.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Maps
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
A Note on the Bibliographies
PART ONE
The Land, Its People, and European Empires
1
The Land and Primitive Man
2
France and the Empire of the St. Lawrence
3
The British Years, 1750–1775
PART TWO
From American Ownership to Control, 1775–1816
4
The Northwest and the American Revolution
5
American in Fact
6
The Military Frontier
PART THREE
Settlement, Exploitation, and Organization, 1816–1848
7
The First Ten Thousand
8
The Wisconsin Lead Region
9
Territorial Wisconsin
10
The Land System and Frontier Opportunity
PART FOUR
Yankees and Europeans Build a State, 1830–1860
11
Patterns of Settlement
12
Pioneer Life
13
The Pioneer Economy: Opportunities
14
The Pioneer Economy: Transportation
PART FIVE
Statehood in an Unstable Union, 1846–1865
15
Statehood
16
The Uneasy Years, the 1850s
17
Civil War
PART SIX
A New Economy Emerges, 1860–1900
18
The Civil War and the Economy
19
King Wheat Dethroned
20
Empire in Pine
21
Rails, Commerce, and Industry
PART SEVEN
Politics and the Melting Pot, 1865–1890
22
The Melting Pot
23
Politics of Complacency
24
Politics of Protest
PART EIGHT
The Laboratory of Democracy, 1890–1919
25
La Follette
26
The Fruits of Progressivism
27
Progressivism Falters
PART NINE
Between the Wars
28
The 1920s
29
Depression Decade
PART TEN
Adjustments to Maturity, 1940–1980
30
Problems of a Mature Economy
31
Realignments, Social and Political
Appendix 1:
Governors and Elections
Appendix 2:
Wisconsin Votes in Presidential Elections
Appendix 3:
Population of Wisconsin
Appendix 4:
One Hundred Ten Years of Wisconsin Cities
General Bibliography
Index
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