Midwestern History and Culture – serie
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Heartland
Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States
Häftad, 1990
211 kr
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" . . . an impressive collection of essays . . . gives as clear a picture of the Midwest as a whole as one is likely to get." —Journal of American History" . . . excellent insight into how and why the midwest ticks so well in a unique beat of its own." —South Bend Tribune"[Madison] can take a bow …
Cities of the Heartland
The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest
Häftad, 1993
284 kr
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"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." —Library JournalTeaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged …
Midwestern Women
Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads
Av Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Wendy Hamand Venet
Häftad, 1997
261 kr
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" . . . an excellent introduction to a complex subject. Anyone interested in the Midwest or in women's history will find it a valuable resource." —Agricultural History" . . . the volume as a whole invigorates the field of midwestern history." —Wisconsin Magazine of History" . . . examines four …
Southern Seed, Northern Soil
African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900
Häftad, 2002
254 kr
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Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming communities on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s. Stephen Vincent analyzes the founders' backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color from the Old …
Identity of the American Midwest
Essays on Regional History
Av Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray
Häftad, 2007
298 kr
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In a series of often highly personal essays, this book considers the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about the history of the American Midwest. The contributors begin with the assumption that Midwesterners have never been as consciously regional as their fellow Americans, …
Midwest and the Nation
Rethinking the History of an American Region
Av Andrew R. L. Cayton, Peter S. Onuf
Inbunden, 1990
473 kr
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"Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the latest scholarship on gender, political behavior, etc. Theirs is a fine blending of the old and the new: old scholarship and new directions." —Malcolm …
Farm and Factory
Workers in the Midwest 1880–1990
Inbunden, 1995
364 kr
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"Nelson . . . [is] one of the country's leading labor scholars. . . . [His] work provides an invaluable . . . guide to understanding a critical region . . . ." —Ohio History". . . I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this …
Emerging Midwest
Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787–1861
Inbunden, 1996
473 kr
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". . . agile, ambitious, and complex . . ." —The Journal of Southern History"Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest by examining the way in which Upland Southerners' regional heritage affected the evolution of political culture in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois." —Choice" …
River of Enterprise
The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
Inbunden, 2002
327 kr
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"Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our understanding of the mercantile Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . a finely crafted narrative that lets the reader understand that the Ohio River …
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur
The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture
Av Dennis Nordin, Roy V. Scott
Inbunden, 2005
742 kr
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"Anyone who wants a thorough understanding of the history of the region must read this book." —R. Douglas Hurt, author of Problems of Plenty: The AmericanFarmer in the Twentieth CenturyThis meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in …
At Home in the Hoosier Hills
Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870
Inbunden, 2005
415 kr
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This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. For them, faith in …
