Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph L. Rusk
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780837179421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780837179421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk (b. 1888)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier
Author: Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
The American Midwest
Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253003490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1918
Book Description
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253003490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1918
Book Description
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.