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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't

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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't - Conn, Steven
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"There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that it doesn't mean anything. In fact, he maintains, rural America--so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind--has been shaped by the same major forces as the rest of the country since at least the end of the Civil War: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Conn calls for us to dispense with the fantasies and visions ...

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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't 2023, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226826905

Hardcover