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Kenneth H. Wheeler - Cultivating Regionalism - 9780875804446 - V9780875804446
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Cultivating Regionalism

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Description for Cultivating Regionalism Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; JHB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making—the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in the Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through higher education, the values of people living north and west of the Ohio River formed the basis of a new Midwestern culture. Cultivating Regionalism shows how college founders built robust institutions of higher learning in this socially and ethnically diverse milieu. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these colleges were much different than their ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875804446
SKU
V9780875804446
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About Kenneth H. Wheeler
Kenneth Wheeler is Professor of History at Reinhardt University.

Reviews for Cultivating Regionalism
More than an excellent social history of institutions of higher education in the nineteenth-century Midwest, this book is a thoughtful addition to a growing number of studies investigating the questions of regional identity north and west of the Ohio River.
Andrew Cayton, author of The Midwest and the Nation The value of this book is that it makes new ... Read more

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