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Immigration To The Great Plains, 1865-1914 War, Politics, Technology, And Economic Development, Bruce Garver
Immigration To The Great Plains, 1865-1914 War, Politics, Technology, And Economic Development, Bruce Garver
Great Plains Quarterly
The advent and vast extent of immigration to the Great Plains states during the years 1865 to 1914 is perhaps best understood in light of the new international context that emerged during the 1860s in the aftermath of six large wars whose consequences included the enlargement of civil liberties, an acceleration of economic growth and technological innovation, the expansion of world markets, and the advent of mass immigration to the United States from east-central and southern Europe.1 Facilitating all of these changes was the achievement of widespread literacy through universal, free, compulsory, and state-funded elementary education in the United States, …
Autonomic Emotion, Dylan Hodill
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This essay is devoted to looking back into the life and fiction of Edythe Squier Draper, a twentieth-century writer in Oswego, Kansas. Many of Draper’s stories are set in southeastern Kansas. Through them, we gain a sense of how she attempted—and at times failed—to perceive, articulate, and adapt to her place on the Great Plains. Draper claimed the identity of a rural woman writer by writing herself into narratives of colonial, agricultural settlement, and she both complicated and perpetuated stereotypes of class and race in her fiction. By examining her and her characters’ perspective on their place in the Great …
The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
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