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The Landscape Of Ukrainian Settlement In The Canadian West, John C. Lehr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

To journey through parts of the western interior of Canada at the turn of the century was to experience the cultural landscapes of the peasant heartland of Europe. Nowhere was this more true than on the northerly fringes of the parkland belt and across the. southern reaches of the boreal forest pioneered by Ukrainian immigrants from the Austrian provinces of Galicia and Bukovyna.

Between 1892, when the fIrst small group of seven Ukrainian families settled in Alberta, and 1914, when the outbreak of war in Europe terminated immigration from Austria-Hungary, more than 120,000 Ukrainians settled in Canada.1 Almost all of …

Review Article The Civic Culture Re-Visited The State Of Democracy In Advanced Industrial Germany, Joyce Marie Mushaben

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Review Of Selected Books On Contemporary Asian Studies, 1981-1982

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

Title And Contents- Winter 1982

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

WINTER 1982 VOL. 2 NO.1

CONTENTS

AMERICAN PIONEER LANDSCAPES: AN INTRODUCTION

THE PIONEER LANDSCAPE: AN AMERICAN DREAM David Lowenthal

LEARNING TO READ THE PIONEER LANDSCAPE: BRAUDEL, ELIADE, TURNER, AND BENTON John Opie

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE PAWNEES Richard White

TOWNS OF THE WESTERN RAILROADS John C. Hudson

PLAINS LANDSCAPES AND CHANGING VISIONS John Milton

NOTES & NEWS

American Pioneer Landscapes: An Introduction, Brian W. Blouet

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The concept of landscape is inseparable from the history and life of the Great Plains region. The idea encompasses the character of the physical environment in relation to the social, economic, and cultural changes mankind has wrought upon the land.

In the past twenty-five years, and in several apparently disparate disciplines, there has been a convergence of interest in the concept of landscape as geographers, historians, art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and folklorists have worked to produce a much broader understanding of how landscapes are imagined, represented, created, and viewed by different cultures. Geographers in particular have studied the ways …

Towns Of The Western Railroads, John C. Hudson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From Chicago it is more than twenty-two hundred miles overland to any of the great cities of the Pacific Coast. For almost a century those who made this crossing traveled by train. If they chose to watch, and most did, they saw a three-day pageant of plain, mountain, and desert as it unfolded, hour after hour, across their view from the train window. The high point of the drama might have been an early evening view of Glacier Park, a crossing of the Great salt Lake at dawn, or a midday climb over Glorieta, but the thousands who saw the …

The Pioneer Landscape: An American Dream, David Lowenthal

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

To speak of pioneers, of the pioneer character, of the pioneer spirit, instantly brings vivid impressi~ns to mind. But what and where is the pioneer landscape? No more elusive or evanescent place exists. The pioneer landscape appears here, there, almost everywhere, for only a moment early in the chronicle of any locale; then it vanishes, never to return. Only once in its history is a place a pioneer country. Other pioneering efforts may follow-the extraction of some hitherto unknown or unusable resource, the creation of some new social orderbut these efforts do not occur in pioneer landscapes or circumstances. Lindbergh …

Learning To Read The Pioneer Landscape: Braudel, Eliade, Turner, And Benton, John Opie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Looking at different viewpoints about the landscape of middle America is like seeing the Japanese movie Rashomon: it all depends on who is telling the story. We tend to forget, for example, that American origins are intertwined with an agricultural world view. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the United States was predominantly a nation of farmers, and to all appearances it would continue so indefinitely. (It was not until the early twentieth century that more Americans lived in cities than on farms.) The future successful course of America seemed to depend upon vast and open tracts of good …

El Pueblo Guaymí Y Su Futuro, Milton R.A. Machuca-Gálvez, Daniel Holness Carrasco Sr.

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Esta publicación contiene las ponencias y documentos que se presentaron en el FORO SOBRE EL PUEBLO GUAYMÍ SU FUTURO, celebrado en la ciudad de Panamá del 23 al 27 de marzo de 1981. El material está dividido en cinco secciones: una introducción seguida de 1. La historia de los guaymíes; 2. Situación actual del pueblo guaymí; 3 Las luchas guaymíes; 4. Los grandes proyectos de desarrollo: ¿bendición o maldición?; y, 5. "Se hace el camino al andar": pasos en la lucha. Las secciones “guardan una estrecha relación temática con un eje central que aparece a lo largo de la publicación: …

The New Rural History: Defining The Parameters, Robert P. Swierenga

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last ten years the "new social history" and its stepchild the "new urban history" have become the dominant sub field s within the history discipline; but the "new rural history" remains an orphan child with little recognized place as yet in academic curricula or historical writings.¹ Unlike urban history, which is studied as a coherent whole, aspects of rural history are usually discussed under such rubrics as the westward movement, agricultural history, land history, frontier development, Indian history, and so forth.

The implicit assumption behind this disjointed scholarly perception is that rural history is an incongruity in …

The Immigrant Church As A Symbol Of Community And Place In The Upper Midwest, Robert C. Ostergren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

There can be little doubt that the church as an institution played a major role in the organization and development of community on nineteenth-century American frontiers, especially in the Middle West. Zealous missionary activity was characteristic of American Protestantism in the nineteenth century, and a good portion of that effort was expended on midwestern frontier populations. Thus the region emerged as a locus of fierce competition between the established American denominations. In addition, the Midwest was fertile ground for the establishment of new denominations. Many who settled the region were immigrants who came directly from Europe. Their uprooting severed ties …

Title And Contents- Fall 1981

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

FALL 1981 VOL. I NO.4

CONTENTS

THE NEW RURAL HISTORY: DEFINING THE PARAMETERS Robert P. Swierenga

THE IMMIGRANT CHURCH AS A SYMBOL OF COMMUNITY AND PLACE IN THE UPPER MIDWEST Robert C. Ostergren

BEYOND THE BORDERLANDS: MEXICAN LABOR IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS, 1900-1930 Michael M. Smith

ROL VAAG, GROVE, AND PIONEERING ON THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PLAINS Dick Harrison

BOOK REVIEWS

Community on the American Frontier 263

The Explorations of the La Verendryes in the Northern Plains, 1738-43

Ho for California! Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library

The Jews in Oklahoma

The Germans from Russia in …

Review Of The Jews In Oklahoma By Henry J. Tobias, Moses Rischin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is one of ten brief volumes published in the Newcomers to a New Land series. These carefully researched volumes analyze and detail the histories of ethnic groups in a state that has not been notably associated with traditions of ethnic pluralism. In Oklahoma, where even the Indians have been immigrants, Blacks, Czechs, Germans, Indians, Italians, Jews, Mexicans, Poles, and Germans from Russia are each allotted separate treatment, while the British and Irish are joined together in a single volume

. In five succinct chapters, Henry J. Tobias of the University of Oklahoma outlines the story of Jewish immigration …

Review Of The Germans From Russia In Oklahoma By Douglas Hale, Norman Saul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This small, compact volume is one of the Newcomers to a New Land series, which describes the roles of the major ethnic groups in the settlement and development of Oklahoma. The contribution of the Germans from Russia Mennonites of Dutch and Swiss ancestry from the Ukraine and Protestant and Catholic Volga Germans-to the social and economic life of the Great Plains is now better known, thanks to the activities of many local historical societies, the publications and collections of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia based in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the efforts of veteran scholars such as Karl …

Title And Contents- Summer 1981

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Summer 1981 Vol. I No.3

CONTENTS

FRIENDS AND ALLIES: THE TONKAWA INDIANS AND THE ANGLO-AMERICANS, 1823-1884 Thomas W. Dunlay

IMMIGRANT VOTERS AND THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE IN NEBRASKA, 1917-1920 Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

AGRICULTURAL PIONEERING IN DAKOTA: A CASE STUDY Gilbert C. Fite

LAWRENCE GOODWYN AND NEBRASKA POPULISM: A REVIEW ESSAY Robert W. Cherny

BOOK REVIEWS

Comparative Frontiers: A Proposal for Studying the American West

The Great Plains: Environment and Culture

The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes

William H. Ashley: Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West

Law for the Elephant

The British and Irish in oklahoma The …

Immigrant Voters And The Nonpartisan League In Nebraska, 1917-1920, Burton W. Folsom Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Many people have wondered why socialism never came to America. Some think that life in the factories and on the farms was often so poor that Americans should have been ripe for a socialist government. Political historians have recently shown that radical movements in America had two insurmountable hurdles: strong ethnic loyalties and religious ties. During America's age of capitalist expansion, cultural divisions prevailed when waves of immigrants poured into urban factories and onto Midwestern farms. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigrants and natives fought intense local battles over prohibition, woman suffrage, and compulsory school laws. The economic …

Notes And News- Summer 1981

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes and News

Christlieb Gallery: Opening And Dedication

Flandreau Santee Videotape Project

Czech Heritage Program

Center Governing Board

New Center Publications

American Pioneer Landscapes Symposium

Atlas Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition Planned

Review Of The Great Plains: Environment And Culture Edited By Brian W. Blouet And Frederick C. Luebke, John F. Davis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This collection of twelve essays presents a selection of the offerings to the 1977 symposium on the culture heritage of the plains sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies.

It was probably Walter Prescott Webb's famous The Great Plains (1931) that sparked interest in the study of the region. This interest has gathered momentum during the last two decades and has stimulated many publications on various aspects of the plains and its subdivisions. The study of the region is obviously not the sole preserve of anyone discipline; Webb, Kraenzel, and others have shown that an interdisciplinary approach is necessary …

Review Of William H. Ashley: Enterprise And Politics In The Trans-Mississippi West By Richard M. Clokey, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Richard Clokey's biography of William Ashley is the product of fifteen years of research. The time was well spent; this is a thorough, perceptive, and interesting study of a man who played an important role in the early development of the American West. Perhaps more could have been made of Ashley in the existential sense, giving the reader more insight into his personality, but as a historian (and not a psychohistorian) Clokey understandably chose to emphasize the public rather than the private man. Still, Ashley emerges from his actions as a man who "sought respect and admiration and,. .. projected …

Review Of Comparative Frontiers: A Proposal For Studying The American West By Jerome O. Steffen, Leonard T. Guelke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this short, readable book Jerome Steffen puts forward a framework for the comparative study of frontier societies of the American West. The foundation of Steffen's proposal is the idea that frontier activity can be construed as a contest between the demands of the environment and the principles and practices that settlers brought with them to the frontier. The outcome of this contest, Steffen argues, will largely determine whether changes in the character of frontier societies should be classified as modal or fundamental. In Steffen's words, "Modal change usually represented an altered overt manifestation of a practice or belief whose …

The Platte River Ecology Study: Special Research Report', Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Each spring about 80%of the sandhill cranes in North America stop for several weeks in the Platte and North Platte River Valleys of Nebraska while en route to breeding grounds in Canada, Alaska, and the Soviet Union. This concentration of cranes is unparalleled in North America and these sites represent the principal spring staging areas for the midcontinent population. Large numbers of waterfowl, numerous bald eagles, whooping cranes, and many other species also use the area.

Recent changes in habitat conditions along the Platte and North Platte Rivers have prompted concern for the welfare of sandhill cranes and other migratory …

Title And Contents- Spring 1981

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Spring 1981 Vol. 1 No.2

CONTENTS

THE WHITE MUSTANG OF THE PRAIRIES Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

MULFORD AND BOWER: MYTH AND HISTOR Y IN THE EARLY WESTERN William A. Bloodworth, Jr.

THE HEIRS OF JAMES C. MALIN: A GRASSLAND HISTORIOGRAPHY Allan G. Bogue

BOOK REVIEWS

Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American

and Canadian Western Literature

The American West: New Perspectives,

New Dimensions

The Sioux: A Critical Bibliography

The Emigrant Indians of Kansas: A

Critical Bibliography

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture

The Fur Trade of the American West,

1807-1840: A Geographical Synthesis

Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi

West, 1840-1880

The …

Mulford And Bower: Myth And History In The Early Western, William A. Bloodworth Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With the exception of commentary on Owen Wister and The Virginian (1902), surprisingly little has been written about popular western novels published before world War I.¹ Yet it was writers following in the wake of The Virginian's popularity who really developed and defined the mass-audience western of commercial prospects and formulaic content. B. M. Bower, Clarence Mulford, William McCleod Raine, and Charles Alden Seltzer prepared the way for the later and greater popularity of Zane Grey, whose books first became best-sellers between 1912 and 1917; for the prolific productions of pulp writers like Max Brand after 1918; and …

Notes And News- Spring 1981

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

NOTES & NEWS

DIRECTOR ON LEAVE

NEW CENTER PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

CHRISTLIEB COLLECTION OF WESTERN ART

AMEN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

THE 1982 SYMPOSIUM: CALL FOR PAPERS

SENATOR HRUSKA GIFT

The Heirs Of James C. Malin: A Grassland Historiography, Allan G. Bogue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the early pages of his important novel of western life, Zury, The Meanest Man in Spring County, Joseph Kirkland brought the Prouder family to the blazed tree that marked the location of the Illinois land that was to be their new home, the "woods behind" and the "prairie before" them. Herbert Quick halted yOl1ng Jacobus Vandemark on the bluffs above Dubuque, where the first great rolling sweep of the prairie grassland lay spread before him, and reported that a great surge of emotion coursed through the boy. John Ise pictured the covered wagon of his parents, Rosie and Henry …

Review Of Landlord William Scully By Homer E. Socolofsky, Leslie Hewes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The main concern of this book is with the American holdings of the Irish landowner, William Scully. The story continues virtually to the present time when the American estate of 225,000 acres at Scully's death in 1906 had shrunk but little to 175,000 acres in the hands of his heirs. The report is notable for the wealth of business details uncovered, from which the account is largely fashioned.

One may wonder how different things might have been if Scully's intention to become a resident farmer on his recently acquired land in Illinois in the early 1850s had been realized. Instead, …

Review Of The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions Edited By Jerome O. Steffen, James R. Shortridge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One learns to be suspicious of essay collections. Not only does article quality usually vary, but often the issues addressed are so disparate that an editor can write of an encompassing theme only by using the vaguest of terms. Using these points as criteria, The American West is a better-than-average collection. Editor Jerome Steffen does not say how the eight essays were assembled, but, with one exception, the quality is very good and, with another exception, an important central theme is followed. Steffen asserts that western history needs new and enlarged perspectives if it is to escape its label of …

Review Of The Pirst Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements In Texas By T. Lindsay Baker, Maria Starczewska- Lambasa

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Though sporadic arrivals of Poles into the United States had started much earlier, it was onl y in 1854 that Polish immigration led to the establishment of the first self-contained Polish community and parish. It was perhaps a trick played by history that the first settlements of Silesian Poles sprang up in the San Antonio area of Texas rather than in an area such as Connecticut, which in many respects is geographically more like Poland. The large stream of Polish immigrants arriving in this country in the latter part of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth moved to …

Multi-System Nations And International Law: The International Status Of Germany, Korea And China (Proceedings Of A Regional Conference Of [The] American Society Of International Law

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

Bibliographie Pflanzensoziologischer Arbeiten Über Die Mongolische Volksrepublik, Werner Hilbig

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Zusammenfassung

Die Bibliographie enthält pflanzensoziologische und vegetationsökologische Veröffentlichungen aus dem Gebiet der Mongolischen Volksrepublik (MVR) von den zwanziger Jahren bis zum Jahre 1979. Es werden 217 Arbeiten zitiert. Der Großteil dieser Publikationen stammt aus der Feder sowjetischer Geobotaniker,