Robert C. Shepard, Patrick Bitterman, J. Clark Archer, Fred M. Shelley
Sērija : Iowa and the Midwest Experience
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389604)
From Iowa Territorys nail-bitingly close referenda for statehood to the rise and subsequent erasure of German language media, Atlas of Iowa examines the states geography, demographics, agriculture, and political/cultural patterns. Drawing upon arch...Lasīt vairāk
Robert C. Shepard, Patrick Bitterman, J. Clark Archer, Fred M. Shelley
Sērija : Iowa and the Midwest Experience
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389604)
From Iowa Territorys nail-bitingly close referenda for statehood to the rise and subsequent erasure of German language media, Atlas of Iowa examines the states geography, demographics, agriculture, and political/cultural patterns. Drawing upon arch...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389642)
Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Alth...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609389642)
Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Alth...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jul-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609388409)
2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winnerOn a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jul-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609388409)
2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winnerOn a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609386887)
Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850-1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Mar-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609386887)
Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850-1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609386344)
Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609386344)
Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609385583)
Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri PrizeWinner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh AwardHistorian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities-in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609385583)
Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri PrizeWinner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh AwardHistorian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities-in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2017, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384975)
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2017, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384975)
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2017, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384999)
Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array of new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that agric...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2017, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384999)
Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array of new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that agric...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384364)
The Sacred Causeof Union highlights Iowans important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the states Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitmen...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384364)
The Sacred Causeof Union highlights Iowans important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the states Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitmen...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384227)
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384227)
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384067)
Most people in the United States live in urban areas; still, there are nearly fifty million people living in small towns of just a few thousand people or less. Some towns are within a short drive of a metropolitan area where people can work, shop, or...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609384067)
Most people in the United States live in urban areas; still, there are nearly fifty million people living in small towns of just a few thousand people or less. Some towns are within a short drive of a metropolitan area where people can work, shop, or...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383589)
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the states central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Gr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383589)
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the states central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Gr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383503)
"e;Weve been together in sickness and in health, through the death of his mother, through the adoption of our children, through four long years of this legal battle,"e; Jason Morgan told reporters of himself and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383503)
"e;Weve been together in sickness and in health, through the death of his mother, through the adoption of our children, through four long years of this legal battle,"e; Jason Morgan told reporters of himself and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty....Lasīt vairāk
William E. Whittaker, Lynn M. Alex, Mary C. De La Garza
Sērija : Iowa and the Midwest Experience
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383381)
Iowa has the reputation of being one big corn field, so you may be surprised to learn it boasts a rich crop of recorded archaeological sites as well-approximately 27,000 at last count. Some are spectacular, such as the one hundred mounds at Sny Magil...Lasīt vairāk
William E. Whittaker, Lynn M. Alex, Mary C. De La Garza
Sērija : Iowa and the Midwest Experience
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383381)
Iowa has the reputation of being one big corn field, so you may be surprised to learn it boasts a rich crop of recorded archaeological sites as well-approximately 27,000 at last count. Some are spectacular, such as the one hundred mounds at Sny Magil...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383220)
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383220)
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609383022)
Every year in early August, a breeze borne by silent messengers from another time blows through Iowa. It carries a whiff of something wonderful, something far off and a bit unclear, yet oddly familiar. Its a reminder that an extraordinary annual eve...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382612)
The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960s and 70s, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2014, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382612)
The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960s and 70s, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382476)
A Store Almost in Sight tells the story of commercial development in central Missouri from the early days of American settlement following the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Focusing on those counties near or on the Missouri River, historian Je...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2014, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382476)
A Store Almost in Sight tells the story of commercial development in central Missouri from the early days of American settlement following the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Focusing on those counties near or on the Missouri River, historian Je...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382568)
The Drake Relays are one of the iconic events of track and field in the United States. World and Olympic champions test their speed and stamina on the famed Blue Oval in Des Moines, Iowa, every April, and by spring 2013 they had set fourteen world re...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382162)
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwests...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382162)
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwests...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382223)
During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382223)
During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382032)
What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents lives, the m...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609382032)
What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents lives, the m...Lasīt vairāk
