The American Midwest: An Interpretive EncyclopediaAndrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher Indiana University Press, 2006年11月8日 - 1916 頁 This 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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... John P. Hoerr, And the Wolf Finally Came (1988); Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo, Steeltown U.S.A. (2002); Michael Moore, Downsize This! (1997); Richard Pres- ton, American Steel: Hot Metal Men and the Resurrection of the Rust Belt ...
... John Madson , Where the Sky Began ( 1982 ) ; Michael Martone , Flatness and Other Landscapes ( 2000 ) ; Steven Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel , eds . , The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook ( 1997 ) ; John C. Van Tramp , Prairie and Rocky ...
... John F. Kennedy , who wrote in A Nation of Immigrants , “ We . . . owe the mellowing of the austere Puritan imprint ... John F. Kennedy , A Nation of Immigrants ( 1964 ) ; James P. Leary and Richard March , “ Dutchman Bands , " in ...
... John Deere and Other Tractors The development of the tractor changed the agricul- tural landscape of the Midwest ... JOHN DEERE John Deere tractor at corn harvest . Photo courtesy John Deere & Company . IMG 21832 . Sources and Further ...
... John Deere's Company ( 1984 ) ; T. Herbert Morrell and Jeff Hack- ett , Oliver Farm Tractors ( 1997 ) ; James C. Murphy , " The De- velopment and Diffusion of the Agricultural Tractor , 1880– 1954 , " master's thesis , Southwest Texas ...
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127 | |
Peoples | 177 |
Society and Culture | 275 |
Language | 277 |
Folklore | 349 |
Literature | 425 |
Arts | 527 |
Rural Life | 991 |
SmallTown Life | 1075 |
Urban and Suburban Life | 1143 |
Economy and Technology | 1247 |
Labor Movements and Workingclass Culture | 1249 |
Transportation | 1343 |
Science and Technology Health and Medicine | 1443 |
Public Life | 1537 |
Cultural Institutions | 613 |
Religion | 703 |
Education | 793 |
Sports and Recreation | 867 |
Media and Entertainment | 933 |
Community and Social Life | 989 |
Constitutional and Legal Culture | 1539 |
Politics | 1611 |
Military Affairs | 1727 |
Index | 1807 |
About the Editors | 1891 |