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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... peninsula looks like a left- handed mitten with the thumb on the east and a little finger on the other side; the upper peninsula looks like a shark headed west with a big dorsal fin. The state has a three-thousand-mile coastline around ...
... Peninsula, where the fresh fruit still perfumes the air and in June the yellow puccoon along Lake Michigan fills the air with a fragrance like that of camellias, but the garish three-million-dollar mansions everywhere you look, muscling ...
... Peninsula , struggling with terrible poverty until the 1980s , fought for and won federal recognition . Jack- son's Indian Removal Act is snared all of them ; a few had escaped during the long march and still more had gone to Canada and ...
... Peninsula from Sleeping Bear outside the village of Lake Leelanau . My house , or the oldest portion of it , was on the original plat maps when Leelanau County was first surveyed . It was a Schaub homestead . The Schaubs founded the ...
... Peninsula expanded greatly after completion of the first locks at Sault Ste. Marie in 1855. Lumbering benefited from the development of narrow-gauge rail- roads in the pineries and broad-gauge rail line or lake freighter connections to ...
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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 |