From the miners' doublehouse: archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: From the miners' doublehouse: archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town
المؤلفون: Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960-
بيانات النشر: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007. 1st ed.
سنة النشر: 2007
وصف مادي: xxix, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- Social life and customs., Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History., Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History., Landscape -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History., Company towns -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies., Oral history., Landscape archaeology -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia., Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History.
جغرافية الموضوع: Helvetia (Pa.) -- Antiquities., Helvetia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs., Helvetia (Pa.) -- Buildings, structures, etc., Helvetia (Pa.) -- Biography.
الوصف: "As the first archaeological and historical study of a coal company town that focuses upon the strategies its residents used to manipulate landscape and material culture to achieve personal and social goals, From the Miners' Doublehouse makes a significant contribution to historical and industrial archaeology."--Jacket.
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Corporate paternalism and the company town -- Building the coal company town -- In the coal fields of western Pennsylvania : the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company -- We live in this place -- Oral histories from Helvetia : a community remembers -- How the miner lives : material culture and worker identity in a company town -- The miners' doublehouse : an archaeological perspective -- Creating environment : the physical landscape of the mining town -- Negotiating place : social discourse in a company town -- Appendix A : select papers of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company -- Appendix B : using oral histories from Helvetia.
Original Identifier: ocm67727613
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English, Middle (1100-1500)
ردمك: 978-1-57233-495-3
1-57233-495-9
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.010243252.X
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9781572334953
1572334959