The Identity of the American Midwest

Essays on Regional History
Herausgeber: Cayton, Andrew R L; Gray, Susan E

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on personal experiences as well as a wide variety of scholarship, the authors consider what it means to be from the Midwest and why Midwesterners have traditionally been less assertive about their regional identity than other Americans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780253219206
• ISBN-10: 0253219205
• Artikelnr.: 22144418

Autorenporträt

edited by Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Andrew L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray, "The Story of the Midwest: An
Introduction"
Mary Neth, "Seeing the Midwest with Peripheral Vision: Identities,
Narratives, and Region"
Eric Hinderaker, "Liberating Contrivances: Narrative and Identity in Ohio
Valley Histories"
John Lauritz Larson, "Pigs in Space, or What Shapes American Regional
Cultures?"
Nicole Etcheson, "Barbecued Kentuckians and Six-Foot Texas Rangers: The
Construction of Midwestern Identity"
Kathleen N. Conzen, "Piing the Type: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the Contest of
Midwestern Regionality"
Kenneth Winkle, "'The Great Body of the Republic': Abraham Lincoln and the
Idea of a Middle West"
Susan E. Gray, "Stories Written in the Blood: Race, Identity, and the
Middle West"
Andrew R. L. Cayton, "The Anti-region: Place and identity in the History of
the American Middle West"
R. Douglas Hurt, "Midwestern Distinctiveness"
Jon Gjerde, "Middleness and the Middle West"