Not read the links yet, but a big fan of Deirdre McCloskey, so I will be checking out. (All roads lead back to Chicago.) Thanks. Ian
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:01 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > [image: Lauck web.jpg] <http://www.uiowapress.org/content/lauck-webjpg> > The Lost Region > Toward a Revival of Midwestern History > Jon K. Lauck <http://www.uiowapress.org/people/jon-k-lauck> > > "Jon Lauck has written the definitive manifesto for a new midwestern > historiography. Deeply researched, elegantly written, passionate yet > sensible in its themes, it is a stunning book. One hopes that it will stun > the coasties, for example, who believe that the fly-over states, many of > them beginning with the letter I, have no serious history. Lauck shows that > an America without the Midwest would have been less fair, less strong, less > prosperous, and above all less democratic. Lauck is the new Frederick > Jackson Turner, reminding us that the Midwest is the master spring of > American history--without which, not."--Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished > Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author, *The > Bourgeois Virtues* > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
