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Autore: |
Robertson David
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Titolo: |
Hard As the Rock Itself [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | Sebastopol, : University Press of Colorado, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina: | 307.76 60973 |
307.7660973 | |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hard As the Rock Itself ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4571-1072-5 |
1-60732-068-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817792603321 |
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