Iowa history reader
Book - 2008
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- Subjects
- Published
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press
c2008.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Edition
- University of Iowa Press ed
- Item Description
- Originally published: Ames : State Historical Society of Iowa in association with Iowa State University Press, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 449 p. : maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781587296345
- 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.