The Transformation of Rural Life
The Transformation of Rural Life

Author: Jane H. Adams

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780807844793

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Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the

Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty

Author: Benjamin H. Irvin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199314594

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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.

Frontier Illinois
Frontier Illinois

Author: James E. Davis

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000-08-22

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780253214065

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In this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.