TY - BOOK AU - Gjerde,Jon TI - The minds of the West: ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 SN - 0807861677 AV - F358 .G58 1997eb U1 - 306/.0978 20 PY - 1997/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Ethnology KW - Middle West KW - Acculturation KW - Immigrants KW - History KW - Migration, Internal KW - Ethnologie KW - Midwest KW - Histoire KW - Migration int�erieure KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - Popular Culture KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Etnisch bewustzijn KW - gtt KW - Cultuurverandering KW - Platteland KW - Midwest (�Etats-Unis) KW - Conditions sociales KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-409) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41061 ER -