Title The minds of the West : ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 / Jon Gjerde

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents pt. 1. Region -- 1. Prospects of the West: A Promise and a Threat -- 2. Burden of Their Song: Immigrant Encounters with the Republic -- pt. 2. Community -- 3. We'll Meet on Canaan's Land: Patterns of Migration -- 4. You Can't Put All Your Horses in One Corral: Conflict and Community -- pt. 3. Family -- 5. Farming Is a Hard Life: Household and the Agricultural Workplace -- 6. Tale of Two Households: Patterns of Family -- 7. Mothers and Siblings among the Corn Rows: The Individual Life Course and Community Development -- pt. 4. Society -- 8. They Soon Abandoned Their Wooden Shoes: Ethnic Group Formation -- 9. Teach the Children Domestic Economy: Conceptions of Family, Community, and State -- 10. So Great Is Now the Spirit of Foreign Nationality: Late-Nineteenth-Century Political Conflict Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-409) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Ethnology -- Middle West Acculturation -- Middle West Immigrants -- Middle West -- History Migration, Internal -- Middle West -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Acculturation Ethnology Immigrants Migration, Internal Social conditions Etnisch bewustzijn. Cultuurverandering. Platteland. Acculturation -- Middle West -- History. Emigration and immigration -- Middle West -- History. Migration, Internal -- Middle West -- History. Ethnology -- Middle West. SUBJECT Middle West -- Social conditions Subject Middle West Middle West -- Social conditions. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 96022213 ISBN 0807861677 9780807861677 9798890868350 9789798890864 9798890868

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