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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... Yankee farmers came into contact with the Pennsylvania Germans . The Pennsylvania bank barn was two and one - half stories high . The ground level was partially excavated into a hillside . Here , cattle and other ani- mals could be ...
... Yankees, even before they reached the Midwest, had elevated the three-bay threshing barn by inserting a basement story such as the Pennsylvania barn had. In the new region, how- ever, slopes were more gentle and the basement barn ...
... Yankee to New England . All of these magazines celebrate the local through color photography and articles ; all are intent upon boosting their region and encouraging tourism . As part of this effort , Midwest Living portrays the high ...
... Yankee” backgrounds, although by the early decades of the twentieth century their focus shifted to dairying. Thousands of settlers who came to the Lower Great Lakes from Germany, the Scandinavian countries, and other parts of western ...
... Yankees from New England as in the northern prairies of Illinois . Some were even from the Deep South . Cairo has many African American shotgun houses , a style characterized by being one room wide and sev- eral rooms deep and having a ...
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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 |