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The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

by Richard Sisson

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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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The Midwest captured in all its variety, from the Sears Tower and the streets of Detroit to the Dakota reservations and the corn fields of Iowa

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ISBN:

9780253348869

Author:

Sisson, Richard

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Editor:

Cayton, Andrew

Editor:

Zacher, Chris

Subject:

Anthropology - Cultural

Subject:

Middle west

Subject:

United States - State & Local - General

Subject:

Americana-General

Copyright:

2006

Publication Date:

20061031

Binding:

Hardcover

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

1890

Dimensions:

11.20x8.96x2.53 in. 9.34 lbs.

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Product details 1890 pages Indiana University Press - 2013-02-18 English 9780253348869 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Libri, The Midwest captured in all its variety, from the Sears Tower and the streets of Detroit to the Dakota reservations and the corn fields of Iowa