SKU:
9760806190640
ISBN:
9780806190648
The Good Country: A History Of The American Midwest, 1800-1900
$26.95
"A history of the US Midwest in the nineteenth century, describing and analyzing a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; was marred by overt racism but made significant progress toward racial equality; and generally put democratic ideals into practice further than any nation to date"--
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