Title: Making the heartland quilt
Description: "In Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Douglas K. Meyer reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations.".

"Meyer argues that midcontinental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration. He demonstrates that Upland Southerners, New Englanders, Midlanders-Midwesterners, and foreigners formed culturally mixed regional way stations that interconnected in expanding continental urban-transport systems and culture regions.".

"Basing his research on the 1850 United States manuscript schedules, Meyer dissects the geographical configurations of twenty-three native and ten foreign-born adult male immigrant groups who peopled Illinois."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Geography, History, Human geography, Internal Migration, Land settlement patterns, Land settlement, Human geography, united states, Migration, internal, Illinois, history, Migration intérieure, Histoire, Colonisation intérieure, Types, Géographie, State & Local, General
Places: Illinois
Time periods: 1778-1865, 19th century