The American Midwest: An Interpretive EncyclopediaThis first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination. |
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Family and Kinship | 1027 |
Leisure and Rural Life | 1063 |
Overview | 1077 |
Social Structure | 1089 |
Small Cities as Big Small Towns1110 | 1110 |
Overview | 1129 |
Overview | 1145 |
Rust Belt Manufacturing Cities | 1169 |
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SECTION EDITOR | 177 |
Overview | 179 |
NineteenthCentury Americans | 190 |
Overview | 195 |
Early and Rural NineteenthCentury | 201 |
Late NineteenthCentury Europeans Mexicans | 217 |
TwentiethCentury Southern Migration | 242 |
OutMigration | 264 |
Varieties of English | 286 |
Native American Languages | 307 |
African Middle Eastern Asian | 318 |
Overview | 351 |
Folk Arts and Crafts | 363 |
Foodways | 369 |
Folk Music and Dance | 381 |
Folk Narrative | 397 |
Recreational Folklore | 417 |
Overview | 427 |
Childrens Literature | 433 |
Ethnic Literature | 441 |
Literature of Urban Life | 448 |
Nonfiction Literature | 454 |
Major Writers | 461 |
Overview | 616 |
Cultural Philanthropy | 623 |
Cultural Tourism | 629 |
Worlds Fairs | 637 |
Museums | 647 |
Major A rt Museums | 662 |
Music Institutions and Organizations | 674 |
Higher Education | 809 |
Elementary and Secondary Education | 821 |
Multicultural Issues | 851 |
Religious Schooling | 860 |
Overview | 935 |
Cinema | 950 |
Mass Media | 962 |
Media Personalities | 982 |
Overview | 993 |
Labor on the Farm | 1003 |
Developing Farms for the Market | 1019 |
Suburbia and PostSuburbia | 1179 |
Urban Politics and Government | 1193 |
Metropolitan Financial Institutions | 1207 |
Urban Philanthropy | 1225 |
Housing | 1232 |
Crime Violence and Law Enforcement | 1238 |
Overview | 1252 |
From the Knights of Labor through the American | 1258 |
Labor and the Left | 1279 |
Metropolitan Unionism | 1299 |
Industrial Workers in the Era of the CIO | 1305 |
Labor since the Sixties | 1315 |
Overview | 1345 |
The Great Lakes | 1361 |
Canals | 1377 |
Roads Routes and Trails | 1386 |
Ground Transportation | 1408 |
Travel Literature | 1440 |
Overview | 1446 |
Harvesting Natural Resources | 1458 |
Producing the Food | 1470 |
Moving the People | 1478 |
Creating for Progress | 1486 |
Developing Specialties | 1504 |
Helping People Help Themselves | 1513 |
Educating the Healers | 1519 |
Overview | 1542 |
Militia Common Law Movements | 1552 |
Constitutional History and Contemporary | 1560 |
Governance 1512 | 1572 |
Legal and Judicial Institutions | 1579 |
Major Constitutional and Legal Cases Associated with | 1587 |
Happersett 88 U S 21 Wall 162 | 1593 |
Overview | 1614 |
Presidential TicketBalancing | 1625 |
Isolationism and Globalism | 1675 |
The Political Cultures | 1682 |
Indian Warfare | 1735 |
The American Revolution 17751783 | 1741 |
The Old Northwest Indian War 17861795 | 1747 |
Military Exploration of the Midwest | 1758 |
The Mexican War 18461848 | 1765 |
The United StatesDakota War of 1862 | 1772 |
Newton D Baker 18711937 | 1783 |
World War II 19391945 | 1789 |
Patriotism and Patriotic Organizations | 1795 |
Cold Warriors and Astronauts | 1804 |
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第 91 頁 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
第 151 頁 - BE IT ORDAINED by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district; subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
第 360 頁 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
第 10 頁 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
第 151 頁 - The first line, running due north and south as aforesaid, shall begin on the river Ohio, at a point that shall be found to be due north from the western termination of a line, which has been run as the southern boundary of the State of Pennsylvania...
第 91 頁 - Still this great solitude is quick with life. Myriads of insects, gaudy as the flowers They flutter over, gentle quadrupeds, And birds, that scarce have learned the fear of man, Are here, and sliding reptiles of the ground, Startlingly beautiful. The graceful deer Bounds to the wood at my approach. The bee, A more adventurous colonist than man, With whom he came across the eastern deep, Fills the savannas with his murmurings, And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak.
第 485 頁 - Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.
第 465 頁 - And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn; The stubble in the furries — kindo' lonesome-like but still A-preachin...
第 17 頁 - Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere.
第 xxiv 頁 - Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens...
書目資訊
| 書名 | The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia The American Midwest Midwestern History and Culture |
| 編者 | Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher |
| 出版者 | Indiana University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0253003490, 9780253003492 |
| 頁數 | 1916 頁 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |