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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bergman, Marvin, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Edición:University of Iowa Press ed.
Temas:
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Iowa > History.
Iowa > Social conditions.
Iowa > Politics and government.
Iowa > Histoire.
Iowa > Conditions sociales.
Iowa.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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