The Ozarks: Land and LifeUniversity of Arkansas Press, 01 նոյ, 2001 թ. - 384 էջ The Ozark Mountains reach into Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, forming a region with great natural beauty and a distinctive cultural and historical landscape. This comprehensive volume, a fully updated edition of a beloved classic, reaches into history, anthropology, economics, and geography to explore the complex relationships between the Ozarks' people and land through times of profound change. Drawing on more than thirty years of research, field observations, and interviews, Rafferty examines this subject matter through a range of topics: the settlement patterns and material cultures of Native Americans, French, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the region; population growth; the guerrilla warfare and battles of the Civil War; the cultural transformations wrought by railroads, roads, mass media, and modern communication systems; the discovery, development, and decline of the great mining districts; the various forms of agriculture and the felling of the region's vast forests; and the built landscape, from log cabins to Victorian mansions to strip malls. This new edition also explores the new and potent forces which have reshaped the region over the last twenty years: tourism and the growing service industry, suburbanization, rapid population growth and retirement living, and agribusiness. Lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, maps, and charts. |
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THE CIVIL WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES | 82 |
TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION | 97 |
OZARK AGRICULTURE PATTERNS OF TRIAL AND ERROR | 148 |
THE OZARK LUMBER INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHY | 175 |
RECREATION AND TOURISM | 193 |
NONMATERIAL CULTURAL TRAITS | 237 |
OZARK TOWNS AND CITIES | 251 |
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE | 268 |
NOTES | 293 |
REFERENCES | 335 |
MINING ITS GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY | 124 |
INDEX | 355 |
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Էջ 350 - US Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920. Population, Vol.
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Էջ 327 - A metropolitan area is typically "a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core.": There are three levels of classification: metropolitan statistical areas, consolidated metropolitan statistical areas, and primary metropolitan statistical areas.
Էջ 268 - The cultural landscape is fashioned out of a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape the result. (Under the influence of a given culture, itself changing through time, the landscape undergoes development, passing through phases, and probably reaching ultimately the end of its cycle of development.
Էջ 318 - The current definition, first used for the 1974 census, is any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year The farm definition used for each US territory varies.
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Էջ 268 - ... changing through time, the landscape undergoes development, passing through phases, and probably reaching ultimately the end of its cycle of development. With the introduction of a different, that is, alien culture, a rejuvenation of the cultural landscape sets in, or a new landscape is superimposed on remnants of an older one. The natural landscape is of course of fundamental importance, for it supplies the materials out of which the cultural landscape is formed.