Format:
1 online resource (XXIII, 386 pages)
ISBN:
9780870209499
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Indigenous Intellectuals and the Colonization of the Midwest: Copway, Warren, Blackbird, and Pokagon-Edward Watts -- 2. "Education for the head, heart, and hands": Populism, Progressive Reform, and Rural School Consolidation-Kerry Alcorn -- 3. "A stamp of femininity": The Sorosis Literary Society, Women's Intellectual Discourse, and Regional Identity in Jacksonville, Illinois, 1865-1900-Jenny Barker Devine -- 4. Charles G. Finney and the Creation of the Midwestern Evangelical Mind-William Kostlevy -- 5. He Flirted with Euterpe before He Settled Down with Clio: The Education of Frederick Jackson Turner-Marcia Noe -- 6. "Invitation to the Dance": Robert Ingersoll, Dwight Moody, and the Iconoclastic Gilded Age-Justin Clark -- 7. An Easterner in the Hinterland: Horace Meyer Kallen, the University of Wisconsin, and the Regional Roots of Cultural Pluralism, 1911-1918-Michael C. Steiner -- 8. Modeling "Civic Effectiveness" in the Midwest: Charles Mulford Robinson's Progressive Era Urban Planning, 1907-1915-Brian M. Ingrassia -- 9. Agrarian "Naturism": Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan Frontier-John Linstrom and Daniel Rinn -- 10. "The mind and the soil": An Iowa Town That Grows Writers-Cherie Dargan -- 11. John C. Rawe and Midwestern Agrarianism-Allan C. Carlson -- 12. Mari Sandoz: Regional Writer Never at Home-William C. Pratt -- 13. How the Midwest Encountered Mass Consumer Culture-Kenneth H. Wheeler -- 14. "No Place for Artistes": James Jones's Quest for Authenticity in the Postwar Midwest-Aaron George -- 15. Newton Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and the "Vast Wasteland" Speech-Ray E. Boomhower -- 16. Cleveland's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and Midwestern Racial Liberalism-Andrew Seal -- 17. How the Midwestern GOP Encountered Modernity: Robert Taft, Mobility, and Individualism-William Russell Coil.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780870209482
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780870209482
Language:
English
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