Search Results - "Midwest"

Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / by Towne, Stephen E., 1961-

“…Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.…”
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Degrees of allegiance harassment and loyalty in Missouri's German-American community during World War I / by DeWitt, Petra, 1961-

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Cyperaceae Sedges / by Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931-

“…Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931- Aquatic and standing water plants of the central Midwest.…”
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Filicineae, Gymnospermae, and other monocots, excluding Cyperaceae ferns, conifers, and other monocots, excluding sedges / by Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931-

“…Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931- Aquatic and standing water plants of the central Midwest ;…”
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Acanthaceae to Myricaceae water willows to wax myrtles / by Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931-

“…Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 1931- Aquatic and standing water plants of the central Midwest.…”
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Justice and legal change on the shores of Lake Erie A history of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio /

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Lynching beyond Dixie American mob violence outside the South /

Table of Contents: “…The West -- pt. II. The Midwest -- pt. III. The Northeast.…”
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America's northern heartland by Borchert, John R., 1918-

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Polkabilly how the Goose Island Ramblers redefined American folk music / by Leary, James P., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Polkabilly : old time music in the Upper Midwest -- "Uncle Windy" Whitford -- "Smokey George" Gilbertsen -- Bruce Bollerud : The Hollandale wldcat -- Glen and Ann's -- Cannons and cannonballs.…”
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American Indian and African American people, communities, and interactions an annotated bibliography / by Bier, Lisa, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview -- The northeast -- The mid-Atlantic -- The upper south -- The deep south -- The five tribes -- Cherokee -- chickasaw -- chocaw -- Creek -- seminole -- The west -- The military west and the buffalo sodiers -- The midwest and the great lakes -- Alaska and Canada -- Arts and literature -- Miscellaneous.…”
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Modern Republican Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower years / by Stebenne, David

Table of Contents: “…Native son of the upper Midwest -- Oxford's imprint -- A few false starts -- Legal scholar -- To the Eisenhower administration -- Of theory and practice -- A Republican looks at his party -- Caught in the crosscurrents -- The president's "ghost" -- Dueling with the new right -- Victories and defeats.…”
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A peculiar people Iowa's old order Amish : an expanded edition / by Schwieder, Elmer, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…A peculiar people in a brave new world : Iowa's old order Amish in recent years -- The old order in Iowa -- Origin and growth -- Religious practices -- Economic organization -- Family life -- Mobility and new communities -- The school controversy -- The vital issue : education -- The Beachy Amish -- The plain people in the Midwest.…”
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Sum of the parts the mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing / by Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Let S = meaningful space: the mathematics of region and place -- Sets and unsettlement: region, power, and resistance in New England writing -- An incompleteness theorem of region: Stegner and the American West -- Faulkner and the American South -- Prime real estate: the Midwest, history, and regional identity -- Epilogue: null set-ecological regions and cultural regions.…”
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Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War / by Lehman, James O., Nolt, Steven M., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? …”
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Bird watching by McCartney, Paula

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The ballad collectors of North America how gathering folksongs transformed academic thought and American identity /

Table of Contents: “…Spencer -- Franz Boas, the phonograph, and the Columbia School / Erika Brady -- Ballad collectors in the Ozarks / Norm Cohen -- Songcatchers in the West : cowboy songs ; Songcatchers in the West, other traditions / Guy Logsdon -- Folk song collectors in the Midwest / James P. Leary -- Ballad collectors in the Northeast / Nancy-Jean Ballard Seigel -- Four songcatchers in eastern Canada / Sheldon Posen -- The Lomaxes / Matt Barton -- Robert Winslow Gordon / Paul Stamler -- Collecting occupational songs / Dan Milner -- Commodification and revival / Paul Stamler.…”
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American policy toward Communist Eastern Europe the choices ahead / by Campbell, John Coert, 1911-

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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Regionalism and the humanities

Table of Contents: “…Witschi -- Place is a relationship : regionalism, nationalism, and transnationalism -- Regionalism and the realities of naming / Stephen C. Behrendt -- The Midwest as a colony : transnational regionalism / Edward Watts -- Transcending the urban-rural divide : Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg goes to Chicago / Mark A. …”
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Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience / by Hoddeson, Lillian

Table of Contents: “…The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.…”
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