商品簡介
In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of
the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution
that was pivotal in its making—the small college. During the
antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in
the Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through
higher education, the values of people living north and west of the Ohio
River formed the basis of a new Midwestern culture.
Cultivating Regionalism shows how college founders built robust
institutions of higher learning in this socially and ethnically diverse milieu.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, these colleges were much different than
their counterparts in the East and South—not derivative of them as many
historians suggest. Manual labor programs, for instance, nurtured a Midwestern
zeal for connecting mind and body. And the coeducation of men
and women at these schools exploded gender norms throughout the region.
Students emerging from these colleges would ultimately shape the
ethos of the Progressive era and in large numbers take up scientific
investigation as an expression of their egalitarian, production-oriented
training. More than a history of these antebellum schools, this elegantly
conceived work exposes the interplay in regionalism between thought
and action—who antebellum Midwesterners imagined they were and
how they built their colleges in distinct ways.
作者簡介
Kenneth Wheeler is Professor of History at Reinhardt University.
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