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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... Ozarks”—survives independently of the rest of Illinois; its city ties are with St. Louis, not Chicago. The area's biggest college is Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, a former-hippie enclave that holds rowdiness and radicalism ...
... Ozark and St. Francois Mountains, where town names still reflect the aspirations of the Spanish- and French-colonial founders who dreamed of gold and sil- ver and settled for iron and lead. If there is a middle ground connecting these ...
... Ozarks, Little Dixie, and the cotton country of the boot-heel region is enough to make midwestern credentials as shaky as those in Ohio. Finally, midway across Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, midwestern imagery gives way to that of ...
... Ozarks of southern Missouri are as rugged and isolated as parts of the Appalachian Mountains. Hilly southern Indiana stands in marked contrast to the flat northern part of the state. The Flint Hills of eastern Kansas, which support the ...
... Ozark resort community located in southwestern Missouri, Branson was incorporated in 1912. Upon publication of Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills in 1907, an early-twentieth-century best seller that glorifies the region ...
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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 |