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In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led-the accomp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933-2014
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1996.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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)
Iowa > History.
Iowa > Histoire.
Iowa
Iowa > History
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Native Americans in Iowa
  • Exploration, early settlement, and political developments
  • Pioneers on the prairie
  • Economic development in the nineteenth century
  • Iowans and the Civil War era
  • cultural diversity: immigrants and African Americans in the Hawkeye State, 1833-80
  • Religious and educational institutions in Iowa: establishing the foundations
  • A home first and a business second: agriculture and farm life in the middle years
  • Town life in the middle land
  • Urban life in the Hawkeye State
  • Cultural diversity
  • Social, economic, and political issues in Iowa
  • Economic development: Iowa's industries and industrial workers
  • The 1930s: a time of trial
  • World War II and the years beyond
  • Iowa in the sixties and seventies
  • Iowa: the 1980s and 1990s.

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