The minds of the West : ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 / Jon Gjerde.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- Ethnology -- Middle West
- Middle West -- Social conditions
- Acculturation -- Middle West
- Immigrants -- Middle West -- History
- Migration, Internal -- Middle West -- History
- Ethnologie -- Midwest
- Acculturation -- Midwest
- Immigrants -- Midwest -- Histoire
- Migration int�erieure -- Midwest -- Histoire
- Midwest (�Etats-Unis) -- Conditions sociales
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Acculturation
- Ethnology
- Immigrants
- Migration, Internal
- Social conditions
- Middle West
- Etnisch bewustzijn
- Cultuurverandering
- Platteland
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- F358 .G58 1997eb
- 71.62
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-409) and index.
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Pt. 1. Region -- 1. Prospects of the West: A Promise and a Threat -- 2. Burden of Their Song: Immigrant Encounters with the Republic -- Pt. 2. Community -- 3. We'll Meet on Canaan's Land: Patterns of Migration -- 4. You Can't Put All Your Horses in One Corral: Conflict and Community -- Pt. 3. Family -- 5. Farming Is a Hard Life: Household and the Agricultural Workplace -- 6. Tale of Two Households: Patterns of Family -- 7. Mothers and Siblings among the Corn Rows: The Individual Life Course and Community Development -- Pt. 4. Society -- 8. They Soon Abandoned Their Wooden Shoes: Ethnic Group Formation -- 9. Teach the Children Domestic Economy: Conceptions of Family, Community, and State -- 10. So Great Is Now the Spirit of Foreign Nationality: Late-Nineteenth-Century Political Conflict.
English.
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