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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... communities in the United States : Somalis in Ohio , Hmong in Wisconsin , Hispanics in Iowa , and Mus- lims in Michigan . Ironically , as in the past , the very variety of the Midwest encourages a veneer of public culture that tends to ...
... communities in Illinois cities. One striking result of this is the vibrancy of those black communities. African American art and music are an important part of the Illinois identity. Every- where we go, we hear the echoes of Chicago ...
... communities . So population is also shifting , not simply to eastern Nebraska but to the long chain of communities along the transportation routes fol- lowing the Platte Valley . As the population in outlying counties of Nebraska grows ...
... communities, added diversity. Some became yeoman farmers; others pursued different occupations such as mining and lumbering. Welsh and English (Cornish) laborers set- tled in the Wisconsin/Illinois lead-mining district. Many Germans set ...
... communities in the Midwest who introduced distinc- tive barn types include Welsh in Allen County, Ohio; Czechs in a number of communities in South Dakota; and Germans in the Flint Hills area of Kansas. The latter, as well as some non ...
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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 |