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North Country - Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity (Hardcover): Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney North Country - Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity (Hardcover)
Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney
R2,117 Discovery Miles 21 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're "Up North"-a region that's hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area-and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.

The Good Country - A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 (Hardcover): Jon K. Lauck The Good Country - A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 (Hardcover)
Jon K. Lauck
R1,871 Discovery Miles 18 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the center of American history is a hole-a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest's formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation's history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern "squares" center stage-an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck's cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest's dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The "good country" was, of course, not the "perfect country," and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest's openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.

The Making of the Midwest - Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900 (Hardcover): Jon K. Lauck The Making of the Midwest - Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900 (Hardcover)
Jon K. Lauck
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Plains Political Tradition - Essays on South Dakota Political Tradition (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, Donald C... The Plains Political Tradition - Essays on South Dakota Political Tradition (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, Donald C Simmons Jr
R535 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R76 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a conclusion barely scratches the surface of what constitutes political tradition in the Mount Rushmore State. Editors Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, and Donald C. Simmons, Jr., have drawn together twelve essays on disparate topics in order to consider the state's underlying political culture. Each essay addresses an aspect of history, politics, or art, subtly exposing the contradictory nature of South Dakotans and elucidating the many elements that comprise the larger political tradition. Scholars from around the country consider topics such as war and peace, literature, environmentalism, the American Indian Movement, left-wing and liberal politics, immigration, and defeat. With each essay, the discussion builds upon itself, allowing the reader to develop a fuller sense of where South Dakota fits into the growing study of political culture in modern society.

North Country - Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney North Country - Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're "Up North"-a region that's hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area-and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.

The Good Country - A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck The Good Country - A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the center of American history is a hole-a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest's formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation's history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern "squares" center stage-an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck's cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest's dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The "good country" was, of course, not the "perfect country," and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest's openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.

The Making of the Midwest - Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900 (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck The Making of the Midwest - Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900 (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Prairie Republic - The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889 (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck Prairie Republic - The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889 (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade. What? In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably naÏve or hopelessly outdated. Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood. Prairie Republic corrects an overemphasis on class conflict and economic determinism, factors posited decades ago by such historians as Howard R. Lamar. Instead, Lauck finds South Dakota's political founders to be agents of Protestant Christianity and of civic republicanism - an age-old ideology that entrusted the polity to independent, landowning citizens who placed the common interest above private interest. Focusing on the political culture widely shared among settlers attracted to the Great Dakota Boom of the 1880s, Lauck shows how they embraced civic virtue, broad political participation, and agrarian ideals. Family was central in their lives, as were common-school education, work, and Christian community. In rescuing the story of Dakota's settlers from historical obscurity, Prairie Republic dissents from the recent darker portrayal of western history and expands our view and understanding of the American democratic tradition.

The Midwestern Moment - The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940 (Hardcover): Jon K.... The Midwestern Moment - The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940 (Hardcover)
Jon K. Lauck
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Midwestern Moment - The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940 (Paperback): Jon K.... The Midwestern Moment - The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940 (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daschle vs. Thune - Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck Daschle vs. Thune - Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as ""the other big race of 2004."" Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the rival political ideologies that have animated American politics since the 1960s. In a sign of the ongoing strength of political conservatism, Daschle became the first Senate leader in fifty years to lose a re-election bid. Historian Jon K. Lauck, a South Dakotan who was an insider during that heated campaign, now offers a multilayered examination of this hard-fought and symbolically charged race. Blending historical narrative, political analysis, and personal reflection, he offers a close-up view of the issues that divide the nation - a case study of the continuing clash between liberalism and conservatism that has played out for more than a generation in U.S. politics. Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show how the recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context.

Finding a New Midwestern History (Paperback): Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan Finding a New Midwestern History (Paperback)
Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan
R734 R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Save R64 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

Finding a New Midwestern History (Hardcover): Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan Finding a New Midwestern History (Hardcover)
Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan
R1,368 R1,167 Discovery Miles 11 670 Save R201 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

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