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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... upper 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 ...
... Upper Missouri Agency up- stream from Council Bluffs from 1819 to 1868, and for East River in the jurisdiction of the Mendota Agency in Minnesota from 1820 to 1854. The super- intendent of the Upper Missouri Agency held jurisdic- tional ...
... upper level was by means of a ramp or barn bridge. Otherwise, the basement barn functioned just as the Pennsylvania barn did. The original single-level three-bay barn gradually disap- peared as farming spread westward and the structure ...
... upper Midwest than in its lower reaches, foursquares are also common in Ridge and Valley Appalachia from Pennsylvania southward into Virginia. This coincidence puts their place of origin in question. The former popularity of vernacular ...
... Upper Peninsula , or U.P. Separated from Michigan's Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac , the U.P. is bor- dered by Wisconsin and the Great Lakes of Superior , Michigan , and Huron . The U.P. includes almost 30 percent of ...
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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 |