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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... Native Americans. The valley culture produced a line of urban centers along the river upstream from North Sioux City, including Jefferson, Elk Point, Burbank, Vermillion, Yankton, Bon Homme, Springfield, Run- ning Water, Tackett Station ...
... native religion, which is defined by the use of peyote as a sacrament, entered Sioux Country from the south in about 1902 and gained formal recognition in chapters of the Native American Church of North America. Al- though Native ...
... native grasslands in these areas. Agriculture has replaced native vegetation across large portions of the Midwest because the cli- mate and soils are well suited to grain production, es- pecially corn and wheat. Perhaps less obvious is ...
... native prairie's beauty . He decried the farmer's orderly landscape . Health lay in the less ma- nipulated version , in the survival of the delphinium , for example , along railroad right - of - ways or in grave- yards . Leopold ...
... native plant cover. Oak, maple, ash, elm, beech, and hickory are examples of trees found in this belt of temperate, humid climate. Forests composed of these trees once covered most of the Midwest south of the boreal zone, extending ...
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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 |