Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003 M04 30 - 382 páginas
Regionalism emerged across America during the 1920s and 1930s as an artistic and intelectual revolt against postwar urban industrialization. Robert Dorman tells the story of this movement through the works and careers of the writers, artists, historians,

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This Earth So Deeply Yours A Biographical Exploration of the Regionalist Sensibility
29
The Power of Art The American Indian the Aesthetic Society and the Regionalist Civic Religion
55
The ReDiscovery of America The Regionalist Movement and the Search for the American Folk
81
Ill Take My Stand The Regionalist Revolt against Modern America
105
Hidden History The Great Depression the Ideology of Regionalism and the Crisis of American Exceptionalism
145
The Way Out? Toward an Ideology of Regionalism
219
The Grand Task of Politics The Ideology of Regionalism and the Program for Utopia
249
Termination The Regionalist Movement the New Deal and the Coming of World War II
275
A Saving Remnant The Postwar Legacies of the Regionalist Movement
307
Notes
327
Bibliography
347
Index
359
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Página 2 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.
Página 2 - ... manners prevails throughout, and such has been the fate of our best countries. Exclusive of those general characteristics, each province has its own, founded on the government, climate, mode of husbandry, customs, and peculiarity of circumstances. Europeans submit insensibly to these great powers, and become, in the course of a few generations, not only Americans in general, but either Pennsylvanians, Virginians, or provincials under some other name.
Página 22 - We want a national set of young men like ourselves or better, to start new influences not only in politics, but in literature, in law, in society, and throughout the whole social organism of the country — a national school of our own generation.
Página 18 - Much of the old brutal ignorance that had in it also a kind of beautiful childlike innocence is gone forever. The farmer by the stove is brother to the men of the cities, and if you listen you will find him talking as glibly and as senselessly as the best city man of us all.

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Robert L. Dorman is author of "A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913."

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