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OverviewRegions connect and divide us even as global economies, weather, and germs batter us. Historians, literary scholars, and social scientists use region to ground and challenge ideas about national belonging. In Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism Alexander Finkelstein and Anne F. Hyde have assembled leading scholars of regionalism to discuss the relationship of region to nation. The contributors explore how historical forces have changed regional associations and how regional associations have changed culture and history. The themes of culture, space, and institutions organize this volume: contributors historicize how race and racial thinking have evolved as a major force to define region and nation over time; the essays raise questions about the stability and validity of ""canonical regions"" in U.S. history to find new complexity in how these blocs form and how they understand themselves; and they focus on historicist and conjunctural trends in how institutions and ordinary people conceive regions through political and cultural processes over time. Challenging ideas about both national belonging and local association, the contributors emphasize how regional analysis deepens understanding of migration, race, borders, infrastructure, climate, and Native sovereignty. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alex Finkelstein , Anne F. HydePublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496228109ISBN 10: 1496228103 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 01 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsThe meaning and significance of region and regionalism is momentous in these times of factionalism; this investigation gives us new insights into regionalism and its importance, and it does so with some especially innovative approaches and prisms. . . . This volume is distinguished by the uniform strength of the research and source bases for each piece. --William F. Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West The meaning and significance of region and regionalism is momentous in these times of factionalism; this investigation gives us new insights into regionalism and its importance, and it does so with some especially innovative approaches and prisms. . . . This volume is distinguished by the uniform strength of the research and source bases for each piece. -William F. Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Author InformationAlexander 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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