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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... south, the loess hills and limestone outcrop- pings of Nebraska fade with little distinction into the Kansas hills ... upland short-grass lands of what was once called “the Great American Desert.” During the nineteenth century, railroads ...
... Upland and Lowland South and moved west with the settlers. Southern and north- ern yeoman farmers were overwhelmingly white, lower-middle-class owners of small- to medium-sized tracts. Competition for land resulted in both groups ...
... Upland South and was later a popular ar- chitectural form in places west of the Missouri River . Beginning around 1900 limited numbers of Corn Belt cubes built in midwestern cities and towns began to display unusual traits at the hands ...
... Upland South . Like- wise KMOX , " The Voice of St. Louis , " began broad- casting music , sports , and news reflective of its varied sponsors . Ozark bluegrass featured prominently . Originally a public Missouri corporation , in 1960 ...
... Upland South and the Northeast along its southern and eastern margins. The U.S. Census Bureau, which does not recognize a separate Great Plains region, defines the midwestern states as the entire states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan ...
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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 |