| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Introduction: Why Regions? -- Part 1. Culture -- 1. Many Southerners, Many Souths: The New Beginnings of a Regional History -- 2. Get Farther East Than You Are -- 3. Where in the World Is Hawai'i?: Shifting Geographies of the Fiftieth State -- 4. Sounds of Black Internationalism: Reimagining Regions through Anti-apartheid -- Part 2. Space -- 5. The Significance of Climate in American History: Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing Regions |
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6. A Blueprint for the Border: The Water Treaty of 1944, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and Regional Planning in the Borderlands -- 7. The Formation of Midwestern Regional Identity -- 8. Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands -- Part 3. Institutions -- 9. Growing Up American: The Children's Aid Society and the American West -- 10. Where the East Peters Out: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great Southwest -- 11. Local Identities and National Highways: How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical Regionalism -- Contributors |
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Why Regions / Anne F. Hyde and Alexander Finkelstein -- Many Southerners, Many Souths : The New Beginnings of a Regional History / Jennifer Ritterhouse -- Get Farther East Than You Are / Flannery Burke -- Where in the World is Hawai'i? Shifting Geographies of the 50th State / Sarah Miller-Davenport -- Sounds of Black Internationalism : Reimagining Regions through Anti-Apartheid / Mickell Carter -- The Significance of Climate in American History : Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing Regions / Lawrence Culver -- 'The United States Gains Nothing by the Proposed Guarantee to Mexico' : The Water Treaty of 1944, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and Regional Planning in the Rio Grande Borderlands / Sean Harvey -- The Formation of Midwestern Regional Identity / Jon K. Lauck -- Spatial Survivance : Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands / Taylor Spence -- Growing up American : The Children's Aid Society and the American West / Courtney E. Buchkoski -- Where the East Peters Out : Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great Southwest / Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. -- Local Identities and National Highways : How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical Regionalism / Alexander Finkelstein |
| Summary |
This volume challenges ideas about both national belonging and local association to emphasize how regional analysis deepens understanding of migration, race, borders, infrastructure, climate, and Native sovereignty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed November 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Regionalism -- United States -- History
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Group identity -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American.
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Politics and culture -- United States -- History
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.
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Group identity
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National characteristics, American
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Politics and culture
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Race relations
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Regionalism
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finkelstein, Alex, editor.
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Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781496238399 |
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1496238397 |
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9781496238405 |
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1496238400 |
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