Iowa history reader / edited by Marvin Bergman.

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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:University of Iowa Press ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvii, 449 p. :; map.
Notes:Originally published: Ames : State Historical Society of Iowa in association with Iowa State University Press, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder
  • "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green
  • The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley
  • Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. Bogue
  • The political culture of antebellum Iowa : an overview / Robert Cook
  • "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid / Elizabeth D. Leonard
  • Iowans and the politics of race in America, 1857/1880 / Robert R. Dykstra
  • Town development, social structure, and industrial conflict / Shelton Stromquist
  • Iowa's struggle for state railroad control / John Lauritz Larson
  • Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa / Jeffrey Ostler
  • Iowa, wet or dry? Prohibition and the fall of the GOP / Richard Jensen
  • To whom much is given : the social identity of an Iowa small town in the early twentieth century / Thomas J. Morain
  • Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall
  • World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink
  • The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger
  • The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner
  • Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. Mohr.