"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." --Library Journal
Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. The early part of this century brought wealth and promise to the heartland: automobile production made Detroit a boomtown, and automobile-related industries enriched communities; Frank Lloyd...
"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." --Library Journal
..". an excellent introduction to a complex subject. Anyone interested in the Midwest or in women's history will find it a valuable resource." -Agricultural History
..". the volume as a whole invigorates the field of midwestern history." -Wisconsin Magazine of History
..". examines four centuries of Midwestern women's history, including urban and rural, frontier settlers and American Indians, Mexican and European migrants. The book mixes telling anecdotes with scholarly research." -Indianapolis Star
Writing about four centuries of midwestern women's history, including...
..". an excellent introduction to a complex subject. Anyone interested in the Midwest or in women's history will find it a valuable resource." -Agr...
Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming communities on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s. Stephen Vincent analyzes the founders backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color from the Old South. He traces the migration that culminated in the founding of the two communities. He follows the settlements transformations through the pioneer and Civil War eras, and their gradual transition to commercial farming in the late 19th century. The Beech and Roberts story is at once part of and...
Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming com...
What ways do we have for understanding charity and philanthropy? How do we come to think in these ways? In this volume, historians of antiquity, the middle ages, early modern thought, and the Victorian era discuss the evolution of thinking about and practicing voluntary giving, taking up some inescapable questions about charity.
What ways do we have for understanding charity and philanthropy? How do we come to think in these ways? In this volume, historians of antiquity, th...
..". an impressive collection of essays... gives as clear a picture of the Midwest as a whole as one is likely to get." Journal of American History
..". excellent insight into how and why the midwest ticks so well in a unique beat of its own." South Bend Tribune
" Madison] can take a bow for a job well done." Indianapolis News
"I found Heartland to be a treasure. Had I turned a dog-ear each time I read something worth remembering, the book would be in tatters.... a wonderful companion." Myron A. Marty, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"An ambitious book, full of insight,...
..". an impressive collection of essays... gives as clear a picture of the Midwest as a whole as one is likely to get." Journal of American History...
