The heartland : an American history /
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...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
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Table of 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.