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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... settlers had evaluated prairie landscapes somewhat skeptically when they first encountered them in Illinois early in the nineteenth century , the virtues of these big grasslands were fully appreciated by the time of the postwar boom ...
... settlers found especially difficult to plow be- cause of the dense and deep root systems of the native grasses. Cultivation of the area had to wait for the in- vention of the steel plow by John Deere in the mid- 1800s. In the end, the ...
... settlers came from Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, and Kentucky. New England, Maryland, and other locations also provided some. Nearly all were descendants of En- glish, Scotch-Irish, German, and Irish ethnic groups. Broadly speaking ...
... settlers from New England , New York , and Pennsylvania . The smallest barn , usually termed the English or three - bay threshing barn , is typically three bays wide ( a central threshing floor separating storage or sta- bling areas on ...
... settlers moving inland from the Atlantic seaboard. This divergence is illustrated by a pair of distinctive house types that withstood a transition from laborious time-honored methods of construction to more rapid balloon-frame assembly ...
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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 |