The Heartland An American History by Kristin L Hoganson

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A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small townheartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with theworld.
When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching atHarvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with variousstints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Evenprovincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place wherethe nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taughtto believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determinedto get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the makingof the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'duncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But thereally interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of Americanhistory, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet becameincreasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfastheartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrininga symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories thatHoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul.
In The Heartland , Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of thecountry, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftlynavigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both thebackstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heartat the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work ofhistorical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressingpreoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, andsecurity and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated againstusing the word "heartland" unironically ever again.

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