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Regional Renewal

Name: Regional Renewal
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The American Midwest and the Idea of Regionalism

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By Michael C. Steiner
Imprint: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 5, 2027
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 472

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The American Midwest and the Idea of Regionalism traces the birth, rise, and evolution of regional thought in the American Midwest from the concept's emergence in the 1890s to its national and global implications in the early 21st century. In three parts, author Michael C. Steiner describes how the idea of regionalism arose from the American Midwest, drawing connections between and across many of the cultural movements and actors of US history. First, Steiner outlines how the Middle West, as a constellation of Native and settler cultures, gave rise to the nation's first regional thought. He then focuses on the lives and theories of the most significant contributors to this philosophy-John Wesley Powell, Jane Addams, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Hamlin Garland-before examining its evolution in the first half of the 20th century with the influence of Black intellectuals and artists, from Langston Hughes and Gordon Parks to Margaret Walker and Richard Wright. Following their enduring impact through works of the latter part of the century, Steiner completes his survey with the wide-ranging works of Gwendolyn Brooks, Nelson Algren, and Meridel Le Sueur. Finally, he considers how regionalism has expanded and evolved as a "forever agenda" into our current era. A deep dive into the rich patchwork of racial, ethnic, and radical cultures that is the Midwest, The American Midwest and the Idea of Regionalism is a creative intellectual history that will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Michael C. Steiner is professor emeritus of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton where he taught for forty years, from 1975 until 2015. During his years at Fullerton, Steiner served as department chair and twice as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair: in Hungary in 1998-1999, and in Poland in 2004. He is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed articles, among them the prize-winning essays "The Significance of Turner's Sectional Thesis" and "Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney's Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West." Steiner is also the author or editor of five books, most recently: with Wayne Franklin, Mapping American Culture; with David Wrobel, Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity; Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West; and Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism. A native Midwesterner, Steiner currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania and focuses his creative energy on writing and lecturing about American regionalism and the Midwest.

Acknowledgments Prologue: The Midwest as Seedbed of Diversity and Source of Ideas Part One: An Emerging Region and a Variety of Voices 1. Section, Region, Nation, World 2. Native, White, and Black Heartlands: The Midwest as a Wellspring of Diversity 3. Varieties of Regional Thought and the Midwest as Seedbed of an Idea Part Two: Four Founders of Regional Theory 4. John Wesley Powell and the Physical Foundation of Regionalism 5. Jane Addams, the Urban Frontier, and the Cosmopolitan Neighborhood 6. Frederick Jackson Turner and the Significance of Sections 7. Hamlin Garland, the Middle Border, and the Rise and Fall of a Radical Regionalist Part Three: Race and Regionalism 8. The Rise of the Black Chicago Renaissance, and the Expansion of American Regionalism, 1927-1945 9. The Persistence of Midwestern Regionalism, 1940s and Beyond Epilogue: Regionalism Is a Forever Agenda Notes Index

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