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UNINA9911106477503321 |
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Autore |
Robertson David |
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Titolo |
Hard As the Rock Itself |
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Sebastopol, : University Press of Colorado, 2011 |
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9781457110726 |
1457110725 |
9781607320685 |
1607320681 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Mining the American West Hard as the rock itself |
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Cities and towns -- United States -- Social conditions |
Coal mines and mining -- Colorado -- Cokedale -- History |
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- Toluca -- History |
Group identity -- United States -- Case studies |
Mines and mineral resources -- Oklahoma -- Picher -- History |
Coal mines and mining - History - Toluca - Illinois |
Coal mines and mining - History - Cokedale - Colorado |
Mines and mineral resources - History - Oklahoma - Picher |
Cities and towns - Social conditions - United States |
Group identity - United States |
Business & Economics |
Industries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. INTRODUCTION; The Mining Imaginary; Place, Identity, and the Mining Landscape; 2. TOLUCA; The Longwall Mining District; A ""Rip-Roaring"" Town; Mine Closure and Community Survival; Mining's Legacies; Saving the Jumbos; Reclaiming the Jumbos; 3. COKEDALE; The Trinidad Coal Field; A Model Company Town; The Utopian Myth; Mine Closure and Community Survival; Life and Landscape in the Post-Mining Era; |
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Preserving Cokedale; 4. PICHER; The Tri-State Mining District; Landscape and Identity in Early Picher; "Sores Beyond Cure" |
Hard As the Rock ItselfMine Closure and Community Survival; The Tragedy of Tar Creek; Whither Relocation?; The "Town that Jack Built"; 5. CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized in scholarly and literary works as derelict, as sources of debasing moral influence, and as scenes of environmental decay - have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. Robertson documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Color |
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UNINA9911099631303321 |
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Dunlap Thomas R. <1943-> |
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Faith in nature : environmentalism as religious quest / / Thomas R. Dunlap ; foreword by William Cronon |
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Seattle, Wash., : University of Washington Press |
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Chesham, : Combined Academic [distributor], 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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Nature - Religious aspects |
Environmentalism - Religious aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Originally published: 2004. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents ""; ""Foreword: Searching for the God in All Things by William Cronon ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 / Newton's Disciples ""; ""2 / Emerson's Children ""; ""3 / Journey into |
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Sacred Space ""; ""4 / Sacred Nature Enters Daily Life ""; ""5 / In for the Long Haul: Living in the World ""; ""6 / Conclusion: ""Quo Vadis?"" ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index "" |
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The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the book examines the passion of the movement’s adherents and enemies alike, its concern with the moral conduct of daily life, and its attempt to answer fundamental questions about the underlying order of the world and of humanity’s place within it.Thomas Dunlap is among the leading environmental historians and historians of science in the United States. Originally trained as a chemist, he has a rigorous understanding of science and appreciates its vital importance to environmental thought. But he is also a devout Catholic who believes that the insights of religious revelation need not necessarily be at odds with the insights of scientific investigation. This book grew from his own religious journey and his attempts to understand human ethical obligations and spiritual debts to the natural world.CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2005 |
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