Habits of the heartland : small-town life in modern America /

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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 this work, the author investigates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355, cre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macgregor, Lyn Christine, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks.
Temas:
Community life > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
City and town life > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Vie urbaine > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Communauté > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
City and town life
Commerce > Social aspects
Community life
Manners and customs
Viroqua (Wis.) > Social life and customs.
Viroqua (Wis.) > Commerce > Social aspects.
Wisconsin > Viroqua
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Cultures of Community
  • Three Halloweens, three Viroquas
  • The alternatives: a kinder, gentler counterculture
  • The Main Streeters: the busiest people in town
  • The regulars: keeping things simple
  • Playing in the same sandbox?
  • Commerce, Consumption, and Community in Viroqua
  • Beneficent enterprise and Viroquan exceptionalism
  • Retail morality
  • Consumption and belonging in Viroqua.

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