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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... United States, or any national news report, Kansas might be part of the “Midwest,” the “West,” the “Middle West,” or the “Western States.” In fact, Kansas contains both the geo- graphic center of the United States (before Alaska and ...
... United States was Lutie Lytle, of Topeka, in 1897. Ten years later, Kansas elected Charles Curtis as one of the first Native Amer- icans to the Senate (1907) and he later went on to be- come vice president of the United States in 1929 ...
... United States , in the ma- jority of cases the term was used as a simple substitute for " Midwest . " Although scattered commercial use of heartland ex- ists throughout the United States , it is ubiquitous in the Midwest . The name is ...
... United States from the Volga and Crimea regions of southern Russia from ap- proximately 1870 to the 1920s. The image of a dutiful, pious, German-speaking farmer, newly arrived from Europe, tilling soil on the windswept and treeless ...
... United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Population density . Prepared by Roman Nitze . Source : Overview. As defined in this encyclopedia, the Midwest region of the United States encompasses roughly ...
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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 |