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The American Midwest : essays on regional history

A collection of essays which consider the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about Midwestern history and culture.
eBook, English, ©2001
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2001
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) : 1 map
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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
Papers from a conference held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 1998
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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