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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... Mississippi Valley and those parts of Kansas and Nebraska east of the hundredth meridian and of the Dakotas east of the Missouri River. In part, slavery in- fluenced our decision; only Missouri of the twelve was a slave state. In part ...
... Mississippi at St. Charles , Missouri . As is the case everywhere , Midwestern waterways make obvious political boundaries . The Mississippi River divides Missouri from Illinois and Iowa from Wisconsin . The St. Croix River separates ...
... Mississippi Rivers; this land was settled mostly by uprooted southerners and Appalachians who liked the free, slow-paced at- mosphere and the beauty of the hills. The land is so hilly that it's the only part of Illinois that doesn't ...
... Mississippi River, and others that limit its range to Ohio, Illinois, and the other states of the old Northwest Territory. Sometimes Chi- cago is the focal city; sometimes it is a peripheral out- post. Creation of an Image. Most people ...
... Mississippi” by its chamber of commerce, Dubuque is the seventh- largest city in the state of Iowa (2000 population, 57,686). Its architectural inventory of Victorian-era mansions, especially those on the bluffs overlooking the mighty ...
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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 |