An American colony
Subtitle: regionalism and the roots of Midwestern culture
By: Edward Watts.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Regionalism -- Middle West.; Group identity -- Middle West -- History.; Ethnology -- Middle West -- History.; Land settlement -- Social aspects -- Middle West -- History.; Middle West -- Civilization.; Middle West -- Colonial influence.; Middle West -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: In Order to Begin Right: From Nation to Empire; title: Introduction to Part I 3; title: 1 The Colony of a Colony 9; title: 2 The Case of the Whiskey Rebellion 23; title: 3 Our Language, Our Religion, Our Institutions 39; title: The Literature of Empire; title: PART II; title: Wedged in as It Were: Natives, Crossbloods, Settlers; title: Introduction to Part 2 59; title: 4 If We Are to Judge by Their Actions 65; title: Black Hawk and George Copway; title: 5 A Very Different-Looking Class of People 8 i; title: Old Northwestern Crossbloods; title: 6 An Indelible Stigma 99; title: Settler Writers and Native Subjects; title: PART III; title: The Empire of the Western Mind: Cincinnati and Colonial Culture; title: Introduction to Part 3 117; title: 7 Do Thine Own Dreaming 121; title: Timothy Flint and James Hall; title: 8 The Heterogeneous Rudiments I40; title: Cincinnati as Colonial Center; title: PART IV; title: Each Fibre Tells a Separate Tale: Provincialism and Regionalism; title: Introduction to Part 4 i63; title: 9 That Home Feeling I67; title: Provincialism and Colonialism; title: Io Realism with a Vengeance I85; title: Regionalism and Decolonization; title: I Immutably of the Middle Border 202; title: Hamlin Garland and All Colonists; title: Afterword 216; title: From Incoherent Homogeneity to Coherent Heterogeneity; title: Notes 223; title: Selected Secondary Bibliography 267; title: Index 279.