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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... century and the transportation, communication, and industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century. No other place on earth brought so many different human beings together in such a short period of time to nego- tiate and fashion new ...
... century, American Indians and some Europeans lived in villages on the banks of lakes and rivers from the Ohio River ... nineteenth century. Land in the Midwest would gen- erally be surveyed and sold in squares, creating the checkerboard ...
... nineteenth century with the founding of the great land-grant universities that would become the public face of the Midwest in the twentieth century, symbols of democratic higher education reflected in the motto of The Ohio State ...
... century ago, the house expresses a nineteenth-century farmer's yearning to escape the elements, to find refuge from sun and storm alike in the dark, safe interior. My husband and I are planning a new addition to the house—all windows ...
... nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries nearly ubiquitous in the ... century, as settlement in the Midwest and the plains increased, a need arose ... century windmills were being used to generate electricity. Individual ...
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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 |