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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... industrial metal buildings and grain bins, symbols of industrial mass-production, replace them. Feedlots are found only on specialized factory farms, where manure has become a major waste-disposal problem rather than the resource it ...
... industrial ports of the East Coast , steel - making centers , transshipment centers on the Great Lakes , industries along the Ohio River , and urban centers along a few major roads , no- tably the National Road and the newer highways ...
... industrial de- cline . Many old industrial river towns north or south of Pittsburgh such as Aliquippa and Brownsville are in areas , in the words of author William Least Heat- Moon , " of almost unrelieved Rust Belt decay . " From ...
... industrial production. The East had lost this sort of vitality as it faced the decrepitude of old age, whereas the West still exuded the imprudent optimism and boisterousness of youth. The Midwest's identity as a young adult faced short ...
... industrial growth. Sportswriter Roger Kahn summarized this change: When Carl Sandburg published “Chicago” in 1916, a racket was “a device used to strike a ball or a shuttle- cock.” By 1927... racket had developed another, darker meaning ...
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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 |