City of dust : a cement company in the land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews
| City of dust : a cement company in the land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 977.8355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Portland cement industry - Missouri - Ilasco - History
Working class - Missouri - Ilasco - History |
| ISBN |
9780826264121
0826264123 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- New Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I. A Foreign Colony in Mossback Missouri -- 1. From Robber Caves to Robber Barons: Atlas Portland Cement and the Transformation of Mark Twain's Boyhood Playground -- 2. Woodchopper Landlords and Cement Mill Tenants: The Social Origins of Ilasco -- 3. A Labor Camp in the Shadow of Atlas -- 4. The Wages of Cement -- 5. The Militia Comes to Town: Labor Unrest and the Strike of 1910 -- Part II. Whose Community -- 6. Extending the Control of Old Man Atlas, 1910-1930 -- 7. Schools and Churches -- 8. Company Patriotism and the War on Booze, Blacks, and Immigrants 1910-1930 -- 9. The Culture of Cement and the Forging of an Identity -- Part III. Dust to Dust: Big Business, the State, and the Destruction of Ilasco -- 10. New Landlord on the Block: The United States Steel Corporation, "Imperfect Collusion," and Depression-Era Ilasco -- 11. Gypsies Come to Town: A Union at Last -- 12. Ilasco and the Commercial Construction of Mark Twain -- 13. Render unto Atlas: The War on Community and Labor -- Epilogue: Whose History? Whose Mark Twain? -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002, c1996 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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City of Dust : A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews
| City of Dust : A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 977.8/355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Working class - Missouri - Ilasco - History
Portland cement industry - Missouri - Ilasco - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8262-6412-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450270103321 |
Andrews Gregg
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| Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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City of Dust : A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews
| City of Dust : A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 977.8/355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Working class - Missouri - Ilasco - History
Portland cement industry - Missouri - Ilasco - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8262-6412-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777400803321 |
Andrews Gregg
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| Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thyra J. Edwards [[electronic resource] ] : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews
| Thyra J. Edwards [[electronic resource] ] : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina |
323.092
B |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8262-7241-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : "the spirit of Aframerican womanhood" -- Texas roots of rebellion under the chinaberry tree -- Social work and racial uplift in Gary, Indiana -- Getting a labor education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- Chain smoking and thinking "Black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- Building a popular front in Chicago -- Conducting educational travel seminars to Europe -- With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- With health problems and the Spanish Loyalist refugees in Mexico -- The Double V years and marriage in New York City -- The final years in Italy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461191103321 |
Andrews Gregg
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| Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thyra J. Edwards [[electronic resource] ] : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews
| Thyra J. Edwards [[electronic resource] ] : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina |
323.092
B |
| ISBN | 0-8262-7241-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : "the spirit of Aframerican womanhood" -- Texas roots of rebellion under the chinaberry tree -- Social work and racial uplift in Gary, Indiana -- Getting a labor education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- Chain smoking and thinking "Black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- Building a popular front in Chicago -- Conducting educational travel seminars to Europe -- With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- With health problems and the Spanish Loyalist refugees in Mexico -- The Double V years and marriage in New York City -- The final years in Italy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789963603321 |
Andrews Gregg
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| Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thyra J. Edwards : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews
| Thyra J. Edwards : black activist in the global freedom struggle / / Gregg Andrews |
| Autore | Andrews Gregg |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina |
323.092
B |
| ISBN |
9780826272416
082627241X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : "the spirit of Aframerican womanhood" -- Texas roots of rebellion under the chinaberry tree -- Social work and racial uplift in Gary, Indiana -- Getting a labor education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- Chain smoking and thinking "Black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- Building a popular front in Chicago -- Conducting educational travel seminars to Europe -- With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- With health problems and the Spanish Loyalist refugees in Mexico -- The Double V years and marriage in New York City -- The final years in Italy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966992703321 |
Andrews Gregg
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| Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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