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.
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.
Alexander Finkelstein teaches at Western Colorado University. He has published articles with the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Southern California Quarterly. Anne F. Hyde teaches at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800–1860 (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Why Regions Anne F. Hyde and Alexander Finkelstein Part I: Culture Chapter 1: Many Southerners, Many Souths: The New Beginnings of a Regional History Jennifer Ritterhouse Chapter 2: Get Farther East Than You Are Flannery Burke Chapter 3: Where in the World is Hawai‘i? Shifting Geographies of the 50th State Sarah Miller-Davenport Chapter 4: Sounds of Black Internationalism: Reimagining Regions through Anti-Apartheid Mickell Carter
Part II: Space Chapter 5: The Significance of Climate in American History: Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing Regions Lawrence Culver Chapter 6: ‘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 Chapter 7: The Formation of Midwestern Regional Identity Jon K. Lauck Chapter 8: Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands Taylor Spence
Part III: Institutions Chapter 9: Growing up American: The Children’s Aid Society and the American West Courtney E. Buchkoski Chapter 10: Where the East Peters Out: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great Southwest Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. Chapter 11: Local Identities and National Highways: How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical Regionalism Alexander Finkelstein Contributors Notes Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: Why Regions Anne F. Hyde and Alexander Finkelstein Part I: Culture Chapter 1: Many Southerners, Many Souths: The New Beginnings of a Regional History Jennifer Ritterhouse Chapter 2: Get Farther East Than You Are Flannery Burke Chapter 3: Where in the World is Hawai‘i? Shifting Geographies of the 50th State Sarah Miller-Davenport Chapter 4: Sounds of Black Internationalism: Reimagining Regions through Anti-Apartheid Mickell Carter
Part II: Space Chapter 5: The Significance of Climate in American History: Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing Regions Lawrence Culver Chapter 6: ‘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 Chapter 7: The Formation of Midwestern Regional Identity Jon K. Lauck Chapter 8: Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands Taylor Spence
Part III: Institutions Chapter 9: Growing up American: The Children’s Aid Society and the American West Courtney E. Buchkoski Chapter 10: Where the East Peters Out: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great Southwest Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. Chapter 11: Local Identities and National Highways: How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical Regionalism Alexander Finkelstein Contributors Notes Index
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