| Description |
vii, 251 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Midwestern history and culture
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Midwestern history and culture.
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| Note |
Papers from a conference held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-238) and index. |
| Contents |
The story of the Midwest: an introduction / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray -- Seeing the Midwest with peripheral vision: identities, narratives, and region / Mary Neth -- Liberating contrivances: narrative and identity in Midwestern histories / Eric Hinderaker -- Pigs in space; or, What shapes America's regional cultures? / John Lauritz Larson -- Barbecued Kentuckians and six-foot Texas Rangers: the construction of Midwestern identity / Nicole Etcheson -- Pi-ing the type: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the contest of Midwestern regionality / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- "The great body of the republic": Abraham Lincoln and the idea of a Middle West / Kenneth Winkle -- Stories written in the blood: race and Midwestern history / Susan E. Gray -- The anti-region: place and identity in the history of the American Midwest / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- Midwestern distinctiveness / R. Douglas Hurt -- Middleness and the Middle West / Jon Gjerde. |
| Subject |
Middle West -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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Middle West. |
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Civilization. |
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Middle West -- History -- Congresses.
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History. |
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Middle West -- Geography -- Congresses.
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Geography. |
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Regionalism -- Middle West -- Congresses.
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Regionalism. |
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Group identity -- Middle West -- Congresses.
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Group identity. |
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Human geography -- Middle West -- Congresses.
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Human geography. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-
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Gray, Susan E., 1952-
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| ISBN |
0253339413 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253339416 cloth alkaline paper |
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