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Indiana, an Interpretation

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Books for Libraries Press, 1972 - Indiana - 300 pages
Beginning with the State Fair as a window on Indiana as a whole, Martin interprets the Hoosier state and its history, from the Civil War and its impact on the state to the period during and just after World War II. As he says, "It is a conception of Indiana as a pleasant, rather rural place inhabited by people who are confident, prosperous, neighborly, easygoing, tolerant, shrewd."

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Written in 1947, John Bartlow Martin did not set out to write an Indiana history textbook. Instead, he traversed the state in search of the traditions, beliefs, and idiosyncrasies that come to define ... Read full review

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Indiana: An Interpretation | Journal of the Illinois State ...
Indiana: An Interpretation from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society in Reference provided free by Find Articles.
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JSTOR: Indiana: An Interpretation
Arkansas State Teachers College TED R. WORLEY Indiana: An Interpretation. By John Bartlow Martin. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. xii + 300 + xvii pp. ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0161-391X(194803)34%3A4%3C661%3AIAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - John Martin
The work most significant to the topic of natural Indiana is Indiana: An Interpretation, published in 1947. Martin spent a great amount of time traveling ...
www.bsu.edu/ ourlandourlit/ literature/ Authors/ martinjb.html

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM
... Guide (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1989), 73. 2 John Bartlow Martin, Indiana: An Interpretation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), 75. ...
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TitleIndiana, an Interpretation
Biography index reprint series
AuthorJohn Bartlow Martin
Editionreprint
PublisherBooks for Libraries Press, 1972
ISBN0836981367, 9780836981360
Length300 pages
  
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