Iowa history reader
By: edited by Marvin Bergman.
Contributors: Bergman, Marvin, 1953-
Edition: University of Iowa Press ed.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781587296345
Subjects: Iowa -- History; Iowa -- Social conditions; Iowa -- Politics and government
Notes: Originally published: Ames : State Historical Society of Iowa in association with Iowa State University Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder; title: "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green; title: The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley; title: Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. Bogue; title: The political culture of antebellum Iowa : an overview / Robert Cook; title: "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid / Elizabeth D. Leonard; title: Iowans and the politics of race in America, 1857/1880 / Robert R. Dykstra; title: Town development, social structure, and industrial conflict / Shelton Stromquist; title: Iowa's struggle for state railroad control / John Lauritz Larson; title: Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa / Jeffrey Ostler; title: Iowa, wet or dry? Prohibition and the fall of the GOP / Richard Jensen; title: To whom much is given : the social identity of an Iowa small town in the early twentieth century / Thomas J. Morain; title: Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall; title: World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink; title: The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger; title: The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner; title: Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. Mohr.