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