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This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region’s twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region’s surprising ethnic diversity―a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs―plus well-informed essays on the region’s history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination. ** Review "Any way you look at it, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia is impressive." ―Minnesota History "At 1,800 oversized pages, brimming with hundreds of lively essays on every imaginable

Who reads The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Midwestern History and Culture)?

Author

Andrew R. L. Cayton (editor), Richard Sisson (editor), Chris Zacher (editor)

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253112095

Category

history

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities

Rating

3.7 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14