Finding a New Midwestern History

Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

396 Seiten

2020
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496222350 (ISBN)

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In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast.

Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

Jon K. Lauck is an adjunct professor of history and political science at the University of South Dakota and the author of numerous books, including The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History. Gleaves Whitney is director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids in Michigan. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Colorado Front Range: A Landscape Divided. Joseph Hogan is the director of fact-checking at Retro Report, and has written for the New York Times, the Nation, and the Middle West Review.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Toward a New Midwestern History
Jon K. Lauck, Joe Hogan, and Gleaves Whitney

Part 1. The Midwest as a Region
Chapter 1. The Birth of the Midwest and the Rise of Regional Theory
Michael C. Steiner
Chapter 2. How Nature and Culture Shaped Early Settlement in the Midwest
James E. Davis
Chapter 3. First Cousins: The Civil War’s Impact on Midwestern Identity
Nicole Etcheson

Part 2. The Midwest’s People
Chapter 4. Native Americans and Midwestern History
Susan E. Gray
Chapter 5. American and European Immigrant Groups in the Midwest by the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Gregory S. Rose
Chapter 6. Civic Life in a Midwestern Community
Paula M. Nelson
Chapter 7. Politics in the Promised Land: How the Great Migration Shaped the American Midwest
Jeffrey Helgeson

Part 3. The Iconic Midwest
Chapter 8. Midwestern Small Towns
John E. Miller
Chapter 9. The Agrarian Midwest: A Geographic Analysis
Christopher R. Laingen
Chapter 10. The Role of Sports in the Midwest
David R. McMahon

Part 4. Midwestern Landscapes
Chapter 11. The View from the River: Another Perspective on Midwestern History
Michael Allen
Chapter 12. The Midwest’s Spiritual Landscapes
Jon Butler
Chapter 13. The Development of Midwestern Cities
Jon Teaford

Part 5. The Midwest’s Voices
Chapter 14. Of Murals and Mirrors: Midwest Regionalism Then and Now
Zachary Michael Jack
Chapter 15. Midwestern Intellectuals
James Seaton
Chapter 16. Midwestern Musicians
James P. Leary
Chapter 17. Midwestern Writers: The Fourth Wave
David Pichaske

Part 6. The Midwestern Experience
Chapter 18. The Upper Midwest as the Second Promised Land
Gleaves Whitney
Chapter 19. Growing Up Midwestern
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Chapter 20. The Best of Babbitt: The Midwestern Vision of Arthur Vandenberg
Hank Meijer
Chapter 21. Of Conformity and Cosmopolitanism: Midwestern Identity since World War II
J. L. Anderson

List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	1 illustration, 4 maps, 1 table, 1 graph, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781496222350 / 9781496222350
Zustand	Neuware