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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... ethnic and religious differ- ences within both Native American and European American societies accentuated the internal division of South Dakota. By 1930, the 692,849 people who lived in the state were a remarkably diverse lot. More ...
... ethnic groups. Broadly speaking, settlers focused on certain midwest- ern areas westward or northwestward of their former homes. Largely following latitudinal lines, Virginians and Kentuckians settled the southern Midwest, the central ...
... ethnic awareness . Their middle- and upper - class leaders tapped into a growing self- confidence brought about by increasing political- economic influence in the Midwest as well as pride in Germany's 1871 unification , and they soon ...
... ethnic identity. They were among the first ethnic groups to chronicle their history, organize ethnic his- torical societies, and establish museums of ethnic her- itage, such as the Norwegian Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa; the ...
... ethnic traditions . Among the observant most were or are Lutheran , Mission Covenant , Methodist , or Baptist ... Ethnic expression is stronger in the Midwest than elsewhere as exemplified in the large number of ethnic symbols ...
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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 |