Regions connect and divide us even as global economies, weather, and germs batter us.
She is the author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History..
Hyde teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
Anne F.
He has published articles with the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Southern California Quarterly .
Alexander Finkelstein teaches at Western Colorado University.
Challenging ideas about both national belonging and local association, the contributors emphasize how regional analysis deepens understanding of migration, race, borders, infrastructure, climate, and Native sovereignty. history to find new complexity in how these blocs form and how they understand themselves; and they focus on historicist and conjunctural trends and how institutions and ordinary people shape regional identities through politics and cultural change throughout history.
The themes of culture, space, and institutions organize this volume: contributors historicize how race and racial thinking have evolved as a major force to define region and nation over time; the essays raise questions about the stability and validity of canonical Regions in U.
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The contributors explore how historical forces have changed regional associations and how regional associations have changed culture and history.
Hyde have assembled leading scholars of regionalism to discuss the relationship of region to nation.
In Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism Alexander Finkelstein and Anne F.
Historians, literary scholars, and social scientists use region to ground and challenge ideas about national belonging.
Regions connect and divide us even as global economies, weather, and germs batter us
