The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture

by James R. Shortridge

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It is the "heartland," the home of the average--middle--American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural, political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered, hardworking...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0700604758

ISBN13:9780700604753

Release Date:March 1989

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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