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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... economic ties with the West. The bifurcation is not arbitrary. It is based on geo- graphic and economic realities. Nor is it new. Plains Indian populations during the eighteenth and nine- teenth centuries reflected the same kind of ...
... economic viability all its days . Although from border to border , citizens re- vere the land , tying that spiritual connection to practi- cal and progressive policy making often splits perspec- tives along the Missouri Escarpment where ...
... economic disadvantage, Robinson's fourth theme. Because agriculture is North Dakota's only major industry, the state's economy is tightly bound to everything that affects production, pricing, and trans- portation. True long ago and ...
... Economy . South Dakotans have tended to support different kinds of politicians at different levels of the American federal ... economic mainstay . Now incomes from tourism are nearly as important . Since Congress passed the Agricultural ...
... economic values are thought to reside. These values typically include economic self-suf- ficiency, conservative political and religious ideals, and an organic rootedness borne of agrarian life. Heart- land is translated into other ...
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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 |