From the Miners' Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town
In From the Miners' Doublehouse, archaeologist Karen Metheny uses an interpretive, contextual approach to examine the physical and cultural landscape of the now-abandoned coal-mining town of Helvetia in western Pennsylvania. The author weaves together documentary sources, oral history, and archaeological evidence to reveal the ways in which mine workers constructed a sense of community in this company town from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. 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 perso…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57233-495-3
- EAN: 9781572334953
- Produktnummer: 2487092
- Verlag: Univ Of Tennessee Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 305 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.6 cm 617 g
- Gewicht: 617
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