The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917
ISBN-13:
9780807823125
ISBN-10:
0807823120
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jon Gjerde
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Format:
Hardcover
426 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780807823125
ISBN-10:
0807823120
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jon Gjerde
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Format:
Hardcover
426 pages
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The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (ISBN-13: 9780807823125 and ISBN-10: 0807823120), written by authors
Jon Gjerde, was published by Univ of North Carolina Pr in 1997.
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In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a distinctly American culture created. Many of the European groups, however, viewed the Midwest as an area of opportunity because it allowed them to retain cultural and religious traditions from their homelands. Jon Gjerde examines the cultural patterns, or "minds," that those settling the Middle West carried with them. He argues that such cultural transplantation could occur because patterns of migration tended to reunite people of similar pasts and because the rural Midwest was a vast region where cultural groups could sequester themselves in tight-knit settlements built around familial and community institutions. Gjerde compares patterns of development and acculturation across immigrant groups, exploring the frictions and fissures experienced within and between communities. Finally, he examines the means by which individual ethnic groups built themselves a representative voice, joining the political and social debate on both a regional and national level.
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