Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves
Author: James Krohe JrPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018 In Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves, James Krohe Jr. presents an engaging history of an often overlooked region, filled with fascinating stories and surprising facts about Illinois’s midsection. Krohe describes in lively prose the history of mid-Illinois from the Woodland period of prehistory until roughly 1960, covering the settlement of the region by peoples of disparate races and religions; the exploitation by Euro-Americans of forest, fish, and waterfowl; the transformation of farming into a high-tech industry; and the founding and deaths of towns. The economic, cultural, and racial factors that led to antagonism and accommodation between various people of different backgrounds are explored, as are the roles of education and religion in this part of the state. The book examines remarkable utopian experiments, social and moral reform movements, and innovations in transportation and food processing. It also offers fresh accounts of labor union warfare and social violence directed against Native Americans, immigrants, and African Americans and profiles three generations of political and government leaders, sometimes extraordinary and sometimes corrupt (the “one-horse thieves” of the title). A concluding chapter examines history’s roles as product, recreation, and civic bond in today’s mid-Illinois. Accessible and entertaining yet well-researched and informative, Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves draws on a wide range of sources to explore a surprisingly diverse section of Illinois whose history is America in microcosm.
Annual Magazine Subject-index
Author: The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
The Magazine Subject-index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Contains the cumulation of the subject index issued in the quarterly numbers of the Bulletin of bibliography and magazine subject-index.
Iowa Journal of History
Author: The Iowa Journal of History and Politics
Author: Official List of Incorporated Municipalities of Illinois
Author: Research Catalogue of the American Geographical Society: Regional numbers 6-8, United States. Northeast ; Southeast, North Central
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Research Catalogue
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description