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Hoganson, Kristin L., author.
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Group identity -- Middle West.
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National characteristics, American
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI).
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The Heartland : an A...
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The Heartland : an American history / Kristin L. Hoganson.
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Hoganson, Kristin L., author.
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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xxvi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: What is the nation, at heart? -- Between place and space: The pioneering politics of locality -- Meat in the middle: Converging borderlands in the U.S. Midwest -- Hog-tied: The roots of the modern American empire -- The isolationist capital of America: Hotbed of alliance politics -- Flownover states: The view from the middle of everything -- Home, land, security: Exile, dispossession, and loss -- Conclusion: The nation, at heart.
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"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."---Provided by publisher.
When 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 isolated, maybe even provincial. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. She discovered that 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. -- adapted from jacket
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