9781496238405

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"Regions 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. "-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Politics and culture > United States > History.

Group identity > United States > History.

Regionalism > United States > History.

United States > Race relations > History.

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