Author: Illinois Central Railroad Company
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Ten Best States of America for Agriculture, Horticulture and General Industries Traversed by the Illinois Central Railroad
Author: Illinois Central Railroad Company
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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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.
The Outlook
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Archives and History of the State of Mississippi ...
Author: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Annual Report of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Author: Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Report for 1936/37 includes the Biennial report of the State Librarian, 1935/37; and the Sixth biennial report of the State Library Commission, 1936/37.
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Report for 1936/37 includes the Biennial report of the State Librarian, 1935/37; and the Sixth biennial report of the State Library Commission, 1936/37.
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Transportation to the Seabord
Author: Howard B. Schonberger
Publisher:
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Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
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Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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