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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... gion. Of one thing, however, we have no doubt: What- ever the Midwest lacks in flamboyance or precision, it gains in significance. The conquest, settlement, and development of what we call the Midwest is one of the most important events ...
... gion , had grown so quickly that it sometimes seemed haphazard , even chaotic . Buildings came down almost as soon as they went up . Hundreds of thousands of people arrived from Europe and the Americas , speak- ing multitudes of ...
... Heartland, the nation writ small, the great middle, lacking extremes, lacking diversity. The American Midwest attempts to complicate this image, to demonstrate that this apparently stable re- gion has xxii General Overview v.
... gion nationally dismissed for sameness . In truth , re- gional sameness is ripe for exploitation — particularly , the theme of dependence might not echo so loudly were there more " interdependence " ( regionalism ) strengthening the ...
... gion's black soils and an average annual precipitation as great as twenty-four inches have for more than a century nurtured an agricultural and livestock-feeding economy supported by commercial centers at Sioux Falls, Yankton, Mitchell ...
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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 |