The Lost Region
Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest's crucial roles in the development of the entire country: it helped spark the American Revolution and stabilised the young American republic by strengthening its economy and endowing it with an agricultural heartland; it played a critical role in the Union victory in the Civil War; it extended the republican institutions created by the American founders, and then its settler populism made those institutio…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60938-189-9
- EAN: 9781609381899
- Produktnummer: 14801603
- Verlag: University of Iowa Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Attorney, historian, and senior advisor and counsel to South Dakota Senator John Thune, Jon K. Lauck is the author of three previous books on midwestern political and economic history and the coauthor and coeditor of a collection of essays on South Dakota's political culture. His prize-winning articles and reviews have been published widely.
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