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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... Valleys. In addition to agriculture, these peoples depended on commerce with French and En- glish traders. They traded furs ... Valley, in the 1820s and 1830s the American re- public held sway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Plains ...
... Valley and those parts of Kansas and Nebraska east of the hundredth meridian and of the Dakotas east of the Missouri ... Valleys. Given the rainfall line of the hundredth meridian and the preponderance of rivers as well as the largest ...
... valley , with an abandoned farm sheltered behind trees at the end of a long rutted lane . I wondered why I had never ... valleys and along panoramic ridges , I re- alized why Grant Wood's paintings show such seduc- tively undulating ...
... valley as " heavy green smoke close to the ground . " Or , Robert Frost's view of spring " Nature's first green is gold , Her hardest hue to hold . ” Perhaps this discovery was an accident or the natu- ral result of college life in a ...
... valley of the Platte for travel to and from the buffalo grounds and the flint quarries of what is now northeastern Wyoming . The Oregon , Mormon , Overland , and Pony Express trails used this same route , with some accommodations to the ...
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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 |