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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... Michigan , Min- nesota , and Wisconsin - part farm country and part forested lake terrain , imbued with the ideas ... Michigan and Lake Superior form part of the boundary with Canada for Michigan and Wisconsin . But rivers unite people ...
... Michigan is surrounded by Lakes Michigan, Supe- rior, Huron, and Erie—with connections to Lake On- tario, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the Atlantic Ocean; and at the west end of Lake Superior, after a mile or so of portage, with links ...
... Michigan the first choice of immigrants who wanted to farm and raise a family. Federal surveyor Edward Tiffin reported after the War of 1812 that only one acre in a thousand would “admit of cultivation.” Unbeknownst to Tiffin, there was ...
... Michigan wasn't even Michigan until 1837, the twenty-sixth state admitted to the Union, a vast, im- penetrable forest. The Michigan wilderness was where slaves who followed the North Star sometimes found safe haven with bands of Indians ...
... Michigan to a county , a road , and a school . When Alexis de Tocqueville came up the Detroit River in 1831 to the present - day location of Detroit , there was a fort on one side and an Indian camp on the other . " French appearance of ...
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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 |