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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... developed, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, and Croatians arrived to man them, along with blacks from the South. They gave Cleveland, in particular, a far differ- ent character from the rest of the state ...
... developed strong rural communities. Individual, fam- ily, or small groups of American Indians remained, particularly in the northern Midwest. Beyond the assumed mainline Protestantism of the model yeoman farmer was more religious ...
... developed to meet their needs, including food distribution for the needy, credit agencies, and fire insurance. Russian Mennonites in Kansas had a large hand in establishing a college (Bethel College in North Newton), hospi- tals ...
... developed soils. New plant assemblages developed as soils formed and individual species mi- grated northward and westward. In the mid-nine- teenth century, when the U.S. government undertook a detailed land survey, surveyors recorded ...
... developed where single or multiple fire-tolerant trees punctuated the continuous grass cover. The mixed deciduous forest, or Big Woods, extended from central Wisconsin through central Minnesota, south of the boreal forest. Prior to ...
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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 |