An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture

by Edward Watts

The Old Northwest--the region now known as the Midwest--has been largely overlooked in American cultural history, represented as a place smoothly assimilated into the expanding, manifestly-destined nation. An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture studies the primary texts and principal conflicts of the settlement of the Old Northwest to reveal that its entry into the nation's culture was not without problems. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821414321
• ISBN13: 9780821414323
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"