What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the development of regional identity in the American West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up of many different wests--Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and more--in which American regionalism finds its fullest expression. These fourteen original essays tell how a sense of place emerged among residents of various regions and how a sense of those places was developed by people outside of them. Wrobel and Steiner...
What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the dev...
Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism, Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in "Regionalists on the Left" uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s.
Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen...
Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism, Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism...
