Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism, Michael C. Steiner
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: Regina Donlon Название: German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900 ISBN: 3030087751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030087753 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, Regina Donlon employs comparative and transnational methodologies in order to trace their journeys from arrival through their emergence as cultural, social and political forces in their communities. Drawing comparisons between large, industrial St Louis and small, established Fort Wayne and between the different communities which took root there, Donlon offers new insights into the factors which shaped their experiences—including the impact of city size on the preservation of ethnic identity, the contrasting concerns of the German and Irish Catholic churches and the roles of women as social innovators. This unique multi-ethnic approach illuminates overlooked dimensions of the immigrant experience in the American Midwest.
Автор: Bourdon Jeffrey Normand Название: From Garfield to Harding: The Success of Midwestern Front Porch Campaigns ISBN: 1606353802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606353806 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Explores how front porch campaigns transformed candidate interaction with the public. In 1880, James Garfield decided to try something new: rather than run the typical passive campaign for president, he would welcome voters to his farm. Not only did Garfield win, but he started a new campaign technique.
Автор: Donlon Название: German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900 ISBN: 3319787373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319787374 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 1. Introduction 2. An Uncertain Future: The context of European emigration 3. Making the Transition: Irish and German immigrants arrive in the Midwest 4. A Peaceful Conquest: Immigrant settlement in St Louis and Fort Wayne 5. Production, Enterprise and Innovation 6. A Reputation of Respectability: Social and cultural aspects of immigrant life 7. The Church on the Hill: Religious entities in the American Midwest 8. From Discrimination to Domination: Immigrant political participation 9. Piety, Poverty and Perseverance: The experience of immigrant women 10. Conclusion.
Автор: Lieberman Robbie Название: Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest ISBN: 0826222056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826222053 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Offers a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s, focusing on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of midwestern New Left activists that has been neglected in previous studies.
Автор: Sutton Elizabeth Название: Angel de Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession ISBN: 1609386876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609386870 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Tracing the parallel lives of two women artists, Angel De Cora and Karen Thronson, at the turn of the twentieth century, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reveals how their stories intersected and diverged in the American Midwest.
Автор: Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, Joseph Hogan Название: Finding a New Midwestern History ISBN: 1496201825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496201829 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 45980.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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.
The golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota
In 1960, fresh out of a stint in the Air Force, Henry Buchwald was recruited by Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen to join the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota’s medical school. For an American born in Austria, a child of the Holocaust, a position in a city then considered by some to be the “anti-Semitic capital of the United States” might seem an uneasy fit, but in the culture of innovation created by Wangensteen, Buchwald, who had chafed against the rigidity of East Coast medical practice, found everything an imaginative young surgeon could have asked for. Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland is the story of a golden era in American surgery, ushered in by Wangensteen’s creative approach to medical practice, told by one who lived it.
Buchwald describes the roots, heritage, and traditions of this remarkable period at the University of Minnesota’s medical school, where the foundations of open-heart procedures, heart and pancreas transplantation, bariatric surgery, implantable infusion pump therapies, and other medical landmarks originated. Buchwald’s account of the Wangensteen era brings to life a medical culture that thrived on debate and the expression of ideas, a clinical practice bound only by the limits of a surgeon’s inspiration and imagination. As entertaining as it is informative, Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland effectively conjures the character—and characters—of a time that forever changed medicine and the lives of millions.
Автор: Gilpin Toni Название: The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland ISBN: 1642591815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642591811 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 84480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American Heartland.
