An American colony : regionalism and the roots of Midwestern culture by Watts, Edward, 1964- instant download

An American colony : regionalism and the roots of Midwestern culture by Watts, Edward, 1964- instant download

xxv, 285 pages : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index, pt. 1. In order to begin right: from nation to empire. The colony of a colony -- The case of the Whiskey Rebellion -- Our language, our religion, our institutions: the literature of empire -- pt. 2. Wedged in as it were: natives, crossbloods, settlers. If we are to judge by their actions: Black Hawk and George Copway -- A very different-looking class of people: old northwestern crossbloods -- An indelible stigma: settler writers and native subjects -- pt. 3. The empire of the western mind: Cincinnati and colonial culture. Do thine own dreaming: Timothy Flint and James Hall, The heterogeneous rudiments: Cincinnati as colonial center -- pt. 4. Each fibre tella a separate tale: provincialism and regionalism. That home feeling: provincialism and colonialism -- Realism with a vengeance: regionalism and decolonization -- Immutably of the middle border: Hamlin Garland and all colonists -- Afterword: From incoherent homogeneity to coherent heterogeneity