LEADER 04585nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910450042703321 005 20210604012323.0 010 $a1-59734-865-1 010 $a9786612762611 010 $a0-520-93633-7 010 $a1-282-76261-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936331 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006884 035 $a(EBL)223742 035 $a(OCoLC)475928843 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207789 035 $a(PQKB)10639587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223742 035 $a(OCoLC)56025269 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30867 035 $a(DE-B1597)518856 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223742 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058824 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276261 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006884 100 $a20010222d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRethinking home$b[electronic resource] $ea case for writing local history /$fJoseph A. Amato 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22772-7 311 0 $a0-520-23293-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-219) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps --$tForeword --$tIntroduction: The Concept and the Practitioners of Local History --$t1. A Place Called Home --$t2. Grasses, Waters, and Muskrats: A Region's Compasses --$t3. The Rule of Market and the Law of the Land --$t4. Writing History through the Senses: Sounds --$t5. Anger: Mapping the Emotional Landscape --$t6. The Clandestine --$t7. Madness --$t8. Madame Bovary and a Lilac Shirt: Literature and Local History --$t9. The Red Rock: Inventing Peoples and Towns --$t10. Business First and Always --$tConclusion: The Plight of the Local Historian --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments and Sources --$tIndex 330 $aJoseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places. 606 $aLand settlement$zMinnesota$xHistoriography 606 $aLocal history$xPhilosophy 607 $aMinnesota$xCivilization$xHistoriography 607 $aMinnesota$xHistory, Local$xPhilosophy 607 $aMarshall (Minn.)$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLand settlement$xHistoriography. 615 0$aLocal history$xPhilosophy. 676 $a977.6/0072 700 $aAmato$b Joseph Anthony$0946601 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450042703321 996 $aRethinking home$92457215 997 $aUNINA