Iowa history reader [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marvin Bergman

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008
• Edizione: University of Iowa Press ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.7
• Soggetto geografico: Iowa History; Iowa Social conditions; Iowa Politics and government
• Altri autori: BergmanMarvin <1953->
• Note generali: Originally published: Ames : State Historical Society of Iowa in association with Iowa State University Press, 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder -- "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. Bogue -- The political culture of antebellum Iowa : an overview / Robert Cook -- "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- Iowans and the politics of race in America, 1857/1880 / Robert R. Dykstra -- Town development, social structure, and industrial conflict / Shelton Stromquist -- Iowa's struggle for state railroad control / John Lauritz Larson -- Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa / Jeffrey Ostler -- Iowa, wet or dry? Prohibition and the fall of the GOP / Richard Jensen -- To whom much is given : the social identity of an Iowa small town in the early twentieth century / Thomas J. Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. Mohr.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa's history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over whether women's expanded roles in wartime carried over to postwar periods, and the place of quantification in history, the essayists contribute substantially to debates at the national level at the same time that they interpret Iowa's distinctive...
• Titolo autorizzato: Iowa history reader
• ISBN: 1-60938-011-8; 1-58729-708-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782560803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II