Ethnicity on the Great Plains
1980
Book
"Ethnicity on the Great Plains is a collection of essays based on a conference sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies. The editor has selected some of the best papers from that conference; attempting to maintain a balance among different academic disciplines, ethnic groups discussed, and various subregions of the Great Plains. The focus of the symposia was on the question of the relationship between the physical environment of the Great Plains and the persistence or accommodation of ethnic culture. The resulting book is a satisfying and pathbreaking multidisciplinary achievement on a neglected topic. The study of rural ethnic groups has been greatly overshadowed in recent years by the study of urban ethnic groups, and this volume provides a welcome change of diet and a reminder of the importance of rural settlements to the life of many ethnic groups in North America prior to World War II. Students of the Great Plains are also well aware that the subject of ethnicity in the region has received little scholarly attention, despite its historical importance." -- Amazon.ca
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780803228559
- 0803228554
Description: xxxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Historic approaches to the study of rural ethnic communities / Kathleen Neils Conzen
- The Great Plains as a colonization zone for Eastern Indians / Arrell Morgan Gibson
- Touching the pen : Plains Indian treaty councils in ethnohistorical perspective / Raymond J. DeMallie
- Plainsmen of three continents : Volga German adaptation to steppe, prairie, and pampa / Timothy J. Kloberdanz
- Prairie bound : migration patterns to a Swedish settlement on the Dakota frontier / Robert C. Ostergren
- The old order of Amish on the Great Plains : a study in cultural vulnerability / John A. Hostetler
- A religious geography of the hill country Germans of Texas / Terry G. Jordon
- Folk religion as idealogy for ethnic survival : the Hungarians of Kipling, Saskatchewan / Linda Dégh
- Czech-American freethinkers on the Great Plains, 1871-1914 / Bruce M. Garver
- Agricultural change among Nebraska immigrants, 1880-1900 / Bradley H. Baltensperger
- Land, labor, and community in Nueces : Czech farmers and Mexican laborers in South Texas, 1880-1930 / Josef J. Barton
- Ethnic assimilation and pluralism in Nebraska / J. Allen Williams, Jr., David R. Johnson and Miguel A. Carranza
LCCN: 79017743
Control Number: 26973
Publisher: Lincoln : Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [1980]