Localism was both a means of resisting changes and the basis of a worldview that helped Hoosiers of the hill country negotiate these changes.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Land and Its Peoples
2. Religion and the Localist Ethic
3. "Surplus Produce" and Market Exchange
4. The Politics of Localism
5. Localism, Race, and the Civil War
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Richard F. Nation is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.