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Shortridge, James Robert was born on March 14, 1944 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Robert Leigh and Harriette Jane Shortridge.
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Kaw Valley landscapes: A guide to eastern Kansas
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This book presents what one geographer sees in his local surrounds. The rural areas and small towns of eastern Kansas are the focus of this tour, and an attempt has been made to sample the full physical and cultural variety of the region.
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Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas
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This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of northeastern Kansas charts a 350-mile loop from the Kansas-Missouri border west through the majestic Flint Hills. The mile-by-mile descriptions cover the following counties: Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Osage, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie, Jackson, Shawnee, Jefferson, and Leavenworth. Along the way, Shortridge's commentary on the history, economy, architecture, and demographics of the region provides a rich appreciation of the landscape and encourages lingering and thoughtful contemplation. "Kansas perhaps needs a tour guide more than do many places," writes cultural geographer James Shortridge, "for the state is more generally viewed as a place to escape from than a place to visit." Illustrated with numerous maps and with charming pen-and-ink drawings by Antoinette Cook Smith, Kaw Valley Landscapes demonstrates that beyond the interstate highways of northeastern Kansas are ethnic enclaves, Indian reservations, sleepy rural towns, a variety of folk architecture, dramatic examples of the geological effects of glaciation―in short, "a fascinating local panorama of land and life." "The starting point is easy to find, at the Kansas-Missouri border on I-70. It is an appropriate place because the Kansas River, whose valley is the subject of this book, here empties into the Missouri. The spot has added significance in that the viaduct over the Kaw is dedicated to Lewis and Clark. What better place," Shortridge asks, "for a modern exploring expedition to begin?" Kaw Valley Landscapes is a revised edition of the guidebook originally published in 1977.
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Middle West Its Meaning in American Culture MIDDLE WEST ITS MEANING IN AMERICAN CULTURE By Shortridge, James R. ( Author )Feb-01-1991 Paperback
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Middle West Its Meaning in American Culture MIDDLE WEST ITS MEANING IN AMERICAN CULTURE By Shortridge, James R. ( Author )Feb-01-1991 Paperback
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The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture
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It is the "heartland," the home of the average—middle—American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural, political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered, hardworking and complacent. From Willa Cather to Sherwood Anderson, from The Wizard of Oz to The Music Man, images of the Middle West are powerful and contradictory. In this thoughtful book, cultural geographer James R. Shortridge offers a historical probe into the "idea" of the Middle West. By exploring what this term originally meant and how it has changed over the past 150 years, he presents a fascinating look at the question of regional identity and its place in the collective consciousness. A work of unconventional geography based on extensive research in popular literature, this volume examines meaning, essence, character—the important intangibles of place not captured by statistical studies—and explores the intimate connections between the notion of pastoralism and the definition of the Middle West.
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James Robert Shortridge
Edit ProfileEducation
AB, Dartmouth College, 1966; Master of Arts, U. Kansas, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Kansas, 1972.
Career
Instructor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1971-1972;
assistant professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1972-1976;
associate professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1976-1982;
professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1982. Visiting scholar Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1979-1980. Visiting associate professor Dartmouth College, 1981.
Editorial board member U. Press Kansas, 1985-1989;advisory county member Church Membership Study United States, 1978-1980, 88-90.
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Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas
(This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of n...)
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Middle West Its Meaning in American Culture MIDDLE WEST ITS MEANING IN AMERICAN CULTURE By Shortridge, James R. ( Author )Feb-01-1991 Paperback
(Middle West Its Meaning in American Culture MIDDLE WEST I...)
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Kaw Valley landscapes: A guide to eastern Kansas
(This book presents what one geographer sees in his local ...)
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The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture
(It is the "heartland," the home of the average—middle—Ame...)
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Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas by Shortridge, James R.(September 20, 1988) Paperback
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Middle West Its Meaning in American Culture MIDDLE WEST ITS MEANING IN AMERICAN CULTURE By Shortridge, James R. ( Author )Feb-01-1991 Paperback By Shortridge, James R. ( Author ) Paperback 1989
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Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas
Membership
Secretary-treasurer Lawrence (Kansas) Summertime Basketball, Inc., 1986-1991, coach, 1985-1991. Member of advisory board Kansas Folk Arts Commission, since 1982. Member Association American Geographers, American Geography Society, North America Culture Society (board directors), Pioneer American Society (editorial board, 1983-1986), Mid-American American StudiesAssn.
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Married Barbara Joyce Gimla, August 12, 1967. Children: Amy Margaret, Katherine Ellen.
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