Author: Illinois Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Documents Relating to the Organization of the Illinois Central Rail-road Company
Author: Illinois Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Documents Relating to the Organization ...
Author: Illinois Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Railroad Land Grants
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Heartland
Author: Kristin L. HogansonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.
Travel and Description, 1765-1865
Author: Solon Justus BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year ...
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton StormPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description