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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... manufacturing jobs were disappearing, it ranked thirty-fourth among the fifty states in the increased value of goods and services produced between 1988 and 1998. Well-paying manufacturing jobs consti- tuted a third of all of the state's ...
... manufacturing enterprises of Cyrus McCormick (born in Virginia) and John Deere (born in Vermont). Minneapolis thrived on grain milling. Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, and, above all, Chicago converted cattle and hogs into meat for con ...
... manufacture regions of the United States . The Northeast became the " Manufac- turing Belt " or the " Industrial ... Manufacturing Belt were the main industrial ports of the East Coast , steel - making centers , transshipment centers ...
... manufacturing . Apart from its use in the Midwest , use of the Rust Belt label has been on the increase in describing for- eign industrial areas now rotting , such as England's old mining and manufacturing “Pauperized Belts,” Germany's ...
... manufacturing of the Eclipse windmill. Manufacturers found a major market in the railroads, which needed water for steam engines. Windmills were also used to grind grain (for both flour and livestock feed), saw wood, churn butter, and ...
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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 |