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      Where East Meets (Mid)West

      Essays on midwestern regional identity

      Somewhere west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River, the Midwest begins. Just where exactly, and how, and why are the questions explored…

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      The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940

      The American Midwest wasn’t always fly-over country. In the early twentieth century it experienced a flowering of regional energy and industry - Midwestern writers, artists, crusaders, and entrepreneurs dominated American…

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      Daschle vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race

      Jon K. Lauck

      Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the rival political ideologies that have animated American politics since the 1960s. Historian Jon Lauck, a South Dakotan…

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      The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900

      Jon K. Lauck

      At the centre of American history is a hole - a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American…

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      The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900

      During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the backcountry, or the area behind the coastal population centers. It was rural and rough, the sort of place…

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      Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

      Jon K. Lauck

      Examines the values we like to think were at work during the founding of America’s western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western…

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      The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940

      The American Midwest wasn’t always fly-over country. In the early twentieth century it experienced a flowering of regional energy and industry - Midwestern writers, artists, crusaders, and entrepreneurs dominated American…

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      The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900

      Jon K. Lauck

      At the centre of American history is a hole - a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American…

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      Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

      Jon K. Lauck

      Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now Jon Lauck…

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      The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History

      Jon K. Lauck

      The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to…

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      The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900

      During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the backcountry, or the area behind the coastal population centers. It was rural and rough, the sort of place…

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      From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965

      Jon K. Lauck

      During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern…

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      City of Hustle: A Sioux Falls Anthology

      A part of Belt’s City Anthology Series, a unique take on the South Dakota town residents call the Best Little City in America. In 1992, Money magazine named Sioux Falls…

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      North Country

      From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic…

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      North Country

      From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic…

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      The Plains Political Tradition

      Jon K. Lauck, Paula M. Nelson

      South Dakota' s unique blend of ethnic cultures, varied landscapes, and small, largely agrarian population have made for fascinating politics. This fourth volume of The Plains Political Tradition offers ten…

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      The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest

      In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats’ so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the…

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      The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest

      In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats’ so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the…

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      Finding a New Midwestern History

      This collection of essays revives and identifies anew the neglected study of the U.S. Midwest by promoting a diversity of viewpoints on midwestern history and culture.

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      Finding a New Midwestern History

      This collection of essays revives and identifies anew the neglected study of the U.S. Midwest by promoting a diversity of viewpoints on midwestern history and culture.

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      The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Tradition

      First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a conclusion barely scratches the surface of what constitutes political tradition…

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      The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, Volume 2

      South Dakota is often thought of as a conservative or red state, but its political culture is much more variegated and unpredictable than such colour-coded references might imply. Just as…

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