Автор: DIL Paula Vw Название: Hard Living in America`s Heartland: Rural Poverty in the 21st Century Midwest ISBN: 0786474815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786474813 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Trying to survive on the richest farmland in America has produced some of the nation`s poorest people. Yet, this book argues, as pertains to rural poverty, the usual definitions and criteria don`t always apply, the known predictors of poverty don`t necessarily hold up -and rural people save themselves again and again, because they know no one else will.
Автор: McQueen Keven Название: Horror in the Heartland: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Midwest ISBN: 025302904X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253029041 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knew--a side teeming with real-life surrealism and historical horror-comedy. From tales of the booming grave-robbing industry of late 19th-century Indiana to the story of a Michigan physician who left his estate to his pet monkeys, Keven McQueen investigates a spooky and twisted side of Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Exploring burial customs, unexplained deaths, ghost stories, premature burials, the industry of grave robbing, bizarre murders, peculiar wills and much more, this creepy collection reveals the colorful untold stories of the region and offers intriguing, if sometimes macabre, insights into human nature and our history.
A fun and frightful look at a vein of darkness running through the Midwest, Horror in the Heartland promises to send chills down your spine.
Автор: Hill Damaris B. Название: The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland ISBN: 0739197878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739197875 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 165530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland in the twentieth century and directly engage with the ways in which race, gender, and intersectional identities are remembered, expressed, and contextualized.
