Habits of the Heartland : Small-Town Life in Modern America /

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So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to think that contemporary technological, economic,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macgregor, Lyn Christine, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Communaute > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Vie urbaine > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Manners and customs.
Community life.
Commerce > Social aspects.
City and town life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
City and town life > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Community life > Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Wisconsin > Viroqua.
Viroqua (Wis.) > Commerce > Social aspects.
Viroqua (Wis.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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