Midwest Regional
The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, editors
The first-ever encyclopedia of the American Midwest captured in all its variety, from the Sears Tower and the streets of Detroit to the Dakota reservations and the corn fields of Iowa.
In the American imaginary, the Midwest is the place of hard-working people, thrifty, devoted to family values, strong in character, middle-of-the-road, sedate, cautious. The American Midwest seeks to embrace this vast area, to give it voice, and help define its complex, yet distinctive character.
cloth 1916 pp. ISBN 0-253-34886-2 / $75.00
Order No. 2629
The Ohio
R. E. Banta
The Ohio gives us a rare portrait of the frontier era of this region, from backwoods entertainment to learning and the arts.
cloth 592 pp. 1949 reprinted 1998 / ISBN 0-8131-2098-5 / $39.95
Order No. 2345
paper 592 pp. 1949 reprinted 1998 / ISBN 0-8131-0959-0 / $19.95
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Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio
Darrel Bigham
Reveals the complex geographic, economic, and cultural forces and factors that shape the little places in America.
cloth 334 pp. 1998 / ISBN 0-8131-2042-X / $39.95
Order No. 3100
Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region
Andrew R. L. Cayton and Peter S. Onuf
An historiographic essay that seeks to locate the significance of the region created by the early land ordinance and to raise issues for the historical examination of other regions of the country.
cloth 169 pp. 1990 / ISBN 0-253-31525-5 / $10.95
Order No. 2099
The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History
Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray
In a series of often highly personal essays, the authors--all of whom are experts on various aspects of Midwestern history--consider the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about the history of the American Midwest. They suggest that the best place to find Midwesternness is in the stories the residents of the region have told about themselves and each other. Being Midwestern is mostly a state of mind. It is always fluid, always contested, always being renegotiated.
cloth 195 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-253-33941-3 / $35.00
Order No. 2133
The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political
Nicole Etcheson
Examination of North and South migrants and the tensions between developing Midwestern identity and residual regional loyalties, from the Revolutionary to the Civil War.
cloth 143 pp. 1996 / ISBN 0-253-32994-9 / $39.95
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume One, The Authors
Philip A. Greasley
Surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors, and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings.
cloth 553 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-253-33609-0 / $59.95
Order No. 2059
Making the Corn Belt: A Geographical History of Middle-Western Agriculture
John C. Hudson
A complete and up-to-date account of the origin and growth of America's heartland. Includes black and white photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and an index.
cloth 254 pp. 1994 / ISBN 0-253-32832-2 / $35.00
Order No. 2095
Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest 1880-1990
Daniel Nelson
A unique Midwest history of work and workers from American's heartland of the 1880s. Originally an agriculture, mining, and forestry area, later turning to commercial and industrial activities.
cloth 272 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-253-32883-7 / $29.95
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Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Susan Sessions Rugh
Rural society was an amalgamation of culturally distinct groups of white, native-born farm people. Agrarian ideology flourished in the Midwest, and nurtured ideals considered distinctively American
cloth 186 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-253-33910-3 / $45.00
Order No. 2037
Writing From the Center
Scott Russell Sanders
Although the geography is Midwestern, the impulses of these essays are universal. In substance, they seek and describe a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual.
cloth 188 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-253-32941-8 / $25.00
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Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest
Jon C. Teaford
Best available study of midwestern cities of the U.S. from the 1830s to the 1980s for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis.
paper 300 pp. 1994 / ISBN 0-253-20914-5 / $15.95
Order No. 2043
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