Gjerde, Jon,  1953-2008. <br/><br/>
The minds of the West :  ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 / 
Jon Gjerde. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  �1997. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-409) and index. 
<br/><br/> Region --  Prospects of the West: A Promise and a Threat --  Burden of Their Song: Immigrant Encounters with the Republic --  Community --  We'll Meet on Canaan's Land: Patterns of Migration --  You Can't Put All Your Horses in One Corral: Conflict and Community --  Family --  Farming Is a Hard Life: Household and the Agricultural Workplace --  Tale of Two Households: Patterns of Family --  Mothers and Siblings among the Corn Rows: The Individual Life Course and Community Development --  Society --  They Soon Abandoned Their Wooden Shoes: Ethnic Group Formation --  Teach the Children Domestic Economy: Conceptions of Family, Community, and State --  So Great Is Now the Spirit of Foreign Nationality: Late-Nineteenth-Century Political Conflict.  Pt. 1.  1.  2.  Pt. 2.  3.  4.  Pt. 3.  5.  6.  7.  Pt. 4.  8.  9.  10. 
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<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807861677 9780807861677 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96022213  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Middle West.<br/>Acculturation--Middle West.<br/>Immigrants--History.--Middle West<br/>Migration, Internal--History.--Middle West<br/>Ethnologie--Midwest.<br/>Acculturation--Midwest.<br/>Immigrants--Histoire.--Midwest<br/>Migration int�erieure--Histoire.--Midwest<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.<br/>Acculturation.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Immigrants.<br/>Migration, Internal.<br/>Social conditions<br/>Etnisch bewustzijn.<br/>Cultuurverandering.<br/>Platteland.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle West--Social conditions.<br/>Midwest (�Etats-Unis)--Conditions sociales.<br/>Middle West.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F358  / .G58 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.0978