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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... percent of the land ( some 4.7 million acres ) . Although most of the land is of little use for agricul- ture or ... percentage of parity payments . " Federal support of agriculture has plum- meted since Congress started to phase out ...
... percent of the nation's agricultural product sales originate in these twelve states. The top ten states in corn acreage are all midwestern. Only two of the top ten states in number of farms with annual sales over a hundred thousand ...
... percent of the nation's land area, 29 percent of its farmland, and a disproportionate 47 percent of the na- tion's cropland, but the region produces only 36 per- cent of the agricultural market value of national prod- ucts sold because ...
... percent of the acres harvested. Other migrants from New England and New York moved west through the Lower Great ... percent of midwestern farmers raise 70 percent of the nation's hogs. Midwestern farmers also raise one-quarter of the ...
... percent of the region's workforce is employed in manufacturing, compared to 13.8 percent for the United States as a whole. Indeed, with just 24 percent of the total employment base of the U.S. economy, the Midwest accounts for 31 per ...
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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 |