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Small-Town America

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165823
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Small-Town America written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing examination of small-town life More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors—residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse. Small-Town America paints a rich panorama of individuals who reside in small communities, finding that, for many people, living in a small town is an important part of self-identity.

The American Small Town

Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Small Town written by John A. Jakle and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 100 Best Small Towns in America

Author : Norman Crampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671846718
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Best Small Towns in America written by Norman Crampton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.

Small Town America

Author : Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Town America written by Richard R. Lingeman and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of America is the history of its small towns. For better or worse, small town values, convictions, and attitudes have shaped the psyche of this nation...[This book] chronicles the rise and fall of small towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific and interweaves the story of their development with the main strands of American history..."--inside flap.

Small Town America

Author :
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Small Town America written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And his poignant, engaging text, grounded in his memories of his own small town upbringing and populated by characters he has met in the course of his work, brings to life the essence of the small town experience.

The Small Town in American Literature

Author : David M. Cook
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060413545
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by David M. Cook and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death and Life of Main Street

Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837563
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Main Street written by Miles Orvell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.

Habits of the Heartland

Author : Lyn C. Macgregor
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458978
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Habits of the Heartland written by Lyn C. Macgregor and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most Americans no longer live in small towns, images of small-town life, and particularly of the mutual support and neighborliness to be found in such places, remain powerful in our culture. In Habits of the Heartland, Lyn C. Macgregor investigates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355, create a small-town community together. Macgregor lived in Viroqua for nearly two years. During that time she gathered data in public places, attended meetings, volunteered for civic organizations, talked to residents in their workplaces and homes, and worked as a bartender at the local American Legion post. Viroqua has all the outward hallmarks of the idealized American town; the kind of place where local merchants still occupy the shops on Main Street and everyone knows everyone else. On closer examination, one finds that the town contains three largely separate social groups: Alternatives, Main Streeters, and Regulars. These categories are not based on race or ethnic origins. Rather, social distinctions in Viroqua are based ultimately on residents' ideas about what a community is and why it matters. These ideas both reflect and shape their choices as consumers, whether at the grocery store, as parents of school-age children, or in the voting booth. Living with-and listening to-the town's residents taught Macgregor that while traditional ideas about "community," especially as it was connected with living in a small town, still provided an important organizing logic for peoples' lives, there were a variety of ways to understand and create community.

Small-town America

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Small-town America written by Robert Wuthnow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moving To A Small Town

Author : Wanda Urbanska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684802236
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Moving To A Small Town written by Wanda Urbanska and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-06-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with charts, worksheets, and profiles of folks who've made the move (and love it), Moving to a Small Town is an inspirational guide book dedicated to helping you pinpoint your ideal small town and make your life there work - permanently. Thinking about leaving the city? Or just wishing you could? You're not alone. America is undergoing a rural renaissance, as countless thousands seek a simpler life and a safe, comfortable community in which to start businesses, raise families, and eventually retire.

The Small Twon in American Literature..

Author : Ima Honaker Herron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Small Twon in American Literature.. written by Ima Honaker Herron and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Live in a Small Town

Author : Mary Austen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508141959
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book We Live in a Small Town written by Mary Austen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in a small town is similar to life in a city, but it’s also different in important ways. Readers discover these differences and similarities as they explore what it’s like to call a small town home. Colorful photographs of small-town life introduce readers to places such as the town library and town hall. These photographs are accompanied by accessible text designed to reflect early social studies curriculum topics. A helpful picture glossary allows readers to enhance their vocabulary skills as they take a fun tour of a small town.

American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960

Author : Nathanael T. Booth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672741
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 written by Nathanael T. Booth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.

The Small Town in American Literature

Author : Albert Alan Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by Albert Alan Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Town America

Author : Clint Brantley Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Small Town America written by Clint Brantley Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Small Town will forever have a place in the undertones of American culture and in the American psychy. The small town has become an identifing piece of the fabric that the overall American Society as a whole uses to project its own image, not only to the world but to its self. This study is an examination of key elements of the American Small town and an exploration into why these places are disappearing. The study goes on to utilize this information to derive a plan for a small town that is free of modern day plights, such as sprawl and redundency. In the end, it proposes a plan for the community of Four Corners, M.T. This case study re-design is an example of how small communities can be shaped early on to prevent waste, maximize efficiency and quality of life.

Small Town Dream - The Guide for Moving to Small Town America

Author : Andy Lapointe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781725749092
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Small Town Dream - The Guide for Moving to Small Town America written by Andy Lapointe and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Officially, Small Town America doesn't exist on any map, but it is very real. Maybe it's the tranquil feeling experienced when walking down streets lined with huge oak trees, the promise of a slower paced lifestyle and the friendly greetings of neighbors. I don't think so... Small Town America isn't just about living in a small town it is about being able to enjoy the small town lifestyle. To truly enjoy the Small Town Dream you must first enjoy a Small Town Lifestyle. What is the Small Town Lifestyle? It's the ability to enjoy all of the amenities of modern living while living in harmony with Mother nature and enjoying a stressful lifestyle. If this is what you want, Small Town Dream is for you! The Small Town Dream is not so much about moving from the big city to a small town immediately, though many people who have followed the steps in the course have done so it's more about enjoying a more meaningful lifestyle. The Small Town Dream is a state of mind. It is a lifestyle of knowing that you are living life the way it was meant to be lived. A life not driven by the worry of crime rates, pollution or daily traffic jams, but spending time with those you love and doing what you were meant to do. That is where the Small Town Dream book comes in. So if you want to leave the stress and crime of the big city or simply create your own Small Town Lifestyle where you currently live, this book can help. Small Town Dream is a step-by-step book specially designed to provide a proven path to enjoying life the way it was went to be. No matter who you are or where you live, this course will help you to spend more time with your family, have a less stressful lifestyle and offer an income generating opportunity. Here are some of the strategies that you'll learn from this book: -How to select the right small town for You and Your Family. -How to make money in a small town. There are 5 ways to earn money in a small town. Once you learn these strategies, you'll know how some of the wealthiest people in a small town earn money! -How to eliminate all of your credit card debt quickly and painlessly. You don't want to move to a small town with a burden of credit card debt. This powerful strategy will teach you how to zap all your debts. The name of this simple method is The Debt Elimination Pyramid. You'll master all your debt immediately after learning this unique and powerful strategy. -How to smooth your transition with 15 time-tested strategies used by some of the wisest folks who ever moved to a small town. -Learn what to look for and what to avoid in a small town community. You'll learn the secrets used by the top real estate professionals. -Learn the "how" and "why" you should set goals to ensure you are living life to the fullest. -How to create a family policy statement. This simple piece of paper will ensure that you are making the right decision. -Four fundamental steps you must take before you ever move to a small town. -How to defeat the #1 enemy of moving to a small town and how to live life on your terms. -How to Create a Household Budget. Learn how to squeeze every penny from your paycheck to fund your Small Town Dream. (You'll even receive a sample budget worksheet to help you get started immediately!) Why Trust What I Have to Say? That is a fair question. The strategies, techniques and "tips" contained in my book are the very same my wife and I have used and are using to enjoy living in a small town since 1992. They are proven and time-tested. My background includes 8 years as a licensed Realtor(R) and then over 15 years in the financial services industry. I have appeared on several television and radio broadcasts talking about real estate and money management. I know how to help others design their ideal lifestyle and achieve their dreams. If you're looking to live life the way it was meant to be, then the Small Town Dream is for you.

American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960

Author : Nathanael T. Booth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476635722
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 written by Nathanael T. Booth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.