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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... Wisconsin - part farm country and part forested lake terrain , imbued with the ideas and sym- bols of northern latitudes and defined in part by the Canadian boundary - the Ohio River that marks the southern edge of the Old Northwest ...
... Wisconsin Herbert T. Hoover University of South Dakota In the summer of 1998 , country music roadies stuffed my boots with cheese . They struck as I slept , right about the time our big bus crossed the Illinois state line into Wisconsin ...
... Wisconsin. They weren't so sure they were proud to be from the other guy's Wisconsin. My trip took me through some of the heart of Milwaukee, and as I poked along, I wondered what my Wisconsin life had to do with this urban Wisconsin ...
... Wisconsin open-air folk museum in Eagle, Wisconsin. Organized as part of small, recon- structed ethnic settlements, the barns effectively com- municate the sense of early farming communities. Sources and Further Reading: Jerry Apps and ...
... Wisconsin through northern Illinois, southern Minnesota, and parts of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Icelandic settlements coalesced at Washing- ton Island, Shawano, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, early staging areas, as well as places in ...
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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 |