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Kansas and the West : new perspectives / edited by Rita Napier.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Napier, Rita.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Kansas--History.
Kansas.
History.
Kansas--Ethnic relations.
Kansas--Social conditions.
Physical Description:
viii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2003]
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking the Past, Reimagining the Future / Rita Napier 1
Part 1. Native Americans, Dispossession, and Resettlement 41
The Story of Three Families / Elliott West 46
The Cultural Landscape of the Pawnees / Richard White 62
The Chippewa and Munsee Indians: Acculturation and Survival in Kansas, 1850s-1870 / Joseph B. Herring 76
The Prairie Potawatomie: Resistance to Allotment / Anonymous 91
The Germans of Atchison, 1854-1859: Development of an Ethnic Community / Eleanor Turk 101
The Elegant Dugout: Domesticity and Moveable Culture in the United States, 1870-1900 / Angel Kwolek-Folland 117
Part 2. Kansas in the Nineteenth Century: From "Bleeding Kansas" to Modernity 135
"Death to All Yankees and Traitors in Kansas": The Squatter Sovereign and the Defense of Slavery in Kansas / Bill Cecil-Fronsman 140
From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands into Kansas, 1854-1865 / Richard Sheridan 157
The Popular Ideology of Segregated Schooling: Attitudes Toward the Education of Blacks in Kansas, 1854-1900 / James C. Carper 181
Non-Partisan and All-Partisan: Rethinking Woman Suffrage and Party Politics in Gilded Age Kansas / Michael Goldberg 200
The Leviathan with Tentacles of Steel: Railroads in the Minds of Kansas Populists / Thomas Frank 228
Paved with Good Intentions: Good Roads, the Automobile, and the Rhetoric of Rural Improvement in Kansas Farmer, 1890-1914 / Paul Sutter 249
Part 3. Twentieth-Century Kansas 271
Acculturation or Assimilation: Mexican Immigrants in Kansas, 1900 to World War II / Robert Oppenheimer 276
An "Army of Amazons": The Language of Protest in a Kansas Mining Community, 1921-1922 / Ann Schofield 299
The Dirty Thirties: A Study in Agricultural Capitalism / Donald Worster 318
The Women's Land Army During World War II / Caron Smith 334
The Limits of Good Faith: Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1950-1956 / Mary L. Dudziak 344
The Effects of Restructuring on Beefpacking in Kansas / Donald D. Stull, Michael J. Broadway 381.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0700612319
0700612327
OCLC:
51088000

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