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 | 0-8262-6412-3 |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826115103321 |
Andrews Gregg | ||
Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 | ||
Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 | ||
Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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