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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... production system; essential to it are the social and settlement sys- tems that support production. Midwestern farms in the American imagination are operated by families who are dedicated to their land and to farming as a way of life ...
... production, both regionally and on individual farms. Farm families reduced their range of production activities and their consumption of home-produced commodities. They sold their chicken flocks and their few milk cows and purchased ...
... production, es- pecially corn and wheat. Perhaps less obvious is the ef- fect of the midwestern seasonal cycle on people. The most potent impact is demonstrated by the ways that individuals use weather events to mark the passage of time ...
... production techniques ; when America was assembling a well - integrated indus- trial economy tied to mass production , mass consump- tion , and economies of scale . Relative to today's post- Fordist economy , it has become a bastion of ...
... production, and supports an economic base that depended on the success of its manufacturing in- dustries, especially heavy industry. Steel production came to the Lower Great Lakes region in the late nineteenth century. Population had ...
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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 |