Iowa: the middle land
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1. Verfasser: Schwieder, Dorothy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ames Iowa State University Press 1996
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 381 pages)
ISBN:0585114706
1587295490
1587296764
9780585114705
9781587295492
9781587296765

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