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1 online resource (333 pages) |
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Westview geographies of the United States |
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Geographies of the United States.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 RESOURCES OF THE NEBRASKA ENVIRONMENT; Climatic Reality; The Land Endowment; Water Resources; Impacts of Water Use; 2 SETTLEMENT: OCCUPANCE, UTILIZATION, AND ADAPTATION; Occupants of the Great Plains; Focus: Prehistoric Resources; Focus: White Pressures on Indian Lands; Developing a Transportation System; Adapting Agriculture to the Great Plains; Living with a Subhumid Environment; 3 POPULATION: SOURCES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND TRENDS; THE ORIGINS OF NEBRASKA'S POPULATION; Native Americans |
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Nebraska's Midwestern HeritageBlacks; Nineteenth-Century European Immigrants; Mexicans and Japanese; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; Patterns; Growth; Nebraskans as Midwesterners; 4 ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND ECONOMIC HEALTH; Nebraska's Economic Health; Mining; Manufacturing; Transportation and Utilities; The Exchange of Goods and Services; Focus: Government in Small Counties; Future Economic Patterns; 5 AGRICULTURAL PATTERNS; The Agricultural Regions of Nebraska; The Structure of Agriculture; Livestock; Crops; Forces of Change; 6 INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE; Agriculture and Technology |
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Focus: Changes in Polk, NebraskaProblems in Agriculture; Focus: Site Selection for Developing Irrigation; Technology, Energy, and Environment; 7 FARMS, FIELDS, AND COMMUNITIES:THE RURAL LANDSCAPE; Nebraska Farmsteads; Farms and Farmlands; Rural Communities; How Rural Is the Rural Landscape?; 8 THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE CITY; Urbanizing the Farmer; Rural Land, Urban Uses; Focus: The Rural School Controversy; Moving to the Country; Ironies of Rural-Urban Interaction; 9 URBAN NEBRASKA; Cities of the Pioneer Era: 1854-1880; Boom and Expansion-Omaha and Lincoln: 1880-1920 |
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Focus: Kountze Place-An Early Omaha SuburbFocus: The West Farnam and Cathedral Districts; Focus: Development of Omaha's Black Community; Automobiles and Decentralization: 1920-1950; The Sprawling City: 1950-1980; Omaha and Lincoln: Divergent Paths of Development; 10 CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND THE FUTURE; Notes; Illustration Credits; Selected Bibliography; Metric Equivalents; Index |
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Print version record |
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Travel
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Geography
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Landeskunde
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Nebraska -- Geography
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Nebraska -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090531
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Nebraska
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Nebraska
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429704567 |
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0429704569 |
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9780429724572 |
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0429724578 |
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