At Home in the Hoosier Hills - Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870

Informationen zum Autor Richard F. Nation is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. Klappentext This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. For them, faith in local institutions reflected a distrust of distant markets and politicians. Localism saw its expression in the Democratic Party's anti-federalist strain, in economic practices such as "safety-first" farming which focused on taking care of the family first, and in non-perfectionist Christianity. Localism was both a means of resisting changes and the basis of a worldview that helped Hoosiers of the hill country negotiate these changes. Zusammenfassung Explores the lives and world views of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. This title focuses on local institutions, and political, economic, and religious issues. It intends to give voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Land and Its Peoples 2. Religion and the Localist Ethic 3. "Surplus Produce" and Market Exchange 4. The Politics of Localism 5. Localism, Race, and the Civil War Epilogue Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Richard F Nation, Richard F. Nation, Richard Franklin Nation, Nation Richard F
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2005
• EAN: 9780253345912
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34591-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Midwestern History and Culture; Indiana University Press; Midwestern History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology