Author: Paul Wallace Gates
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ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work
Author: Paul W. Gates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384177109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384177109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Illinois central railroad and its colonization work
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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The Heartland
Author: Kristin L. Hoganson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Organization and Traffic of the Illinois Central System
Author: Illinois Central Railroad Company
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Railroad Land Grants
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
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Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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ISBN:
Category : Railroad land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Railway Pattern of Metropolitan Chicago
Author: Harold Melvin Mayer
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Miscellaneous Publication
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Immigrants on the Land
Author: George E. Pozzetta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824074043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824074043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.