Author: John R. BorchertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Upper Midwest Urban Change in the 1960's
Author: John R. BorchertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Growth Centers and Their Potentials in the Upper Great Lakes Region
Author: Brian Joe Lobley BerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Place Called Home
Author: Richard O. DaviesPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514514
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
2004 Minnesota Book Award Winner The Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture--from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. But the reality is much more complex, as the small town has been a study in transition from its very inception. In A Place Called Home, editors Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato, and David R. Pichaske offer the first comprehensive examination of the Midwestern small town and its evolving nature from the 1800s to the present. This rich collection, gleaned from the best writings of historians, novelists, social scientists, poets, and journalists, features not only such well-known authors as Sherwood Anderson, Carol Bly, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Langston Hughes, Garrison Keillor, William Kloefkorn, Sinclair Lewis, Susan Allen Toth, and Mark Twain but also many lesser known and exceptionally talented writers. Five chronological sections trace the founding, growth, and decline of the Midwestern town, and introductory comments illuminate its ever-changing face. The result is a wide-ranging collection of writings on the community at the heart of America.
Potential Growth Centers and Growth Center Potentials in the Upper Great Lakes Region
Author: Brian J. L. BerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Rethinking Home
Author: Joseph A. AmatoPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520936331
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Industrial Location Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Urban GrowthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Geographical Perspectives and Urban Problems
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on GeographyPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
America's Northern Heartland
Author: John R. BorchertPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452900280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
To most Americans the Northern Heartland has long been the most mystifying part of their country ...
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