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Joseph Smith III: PRAGMATIC PROPHET
Roger D. Launius
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Description for Joseph Smith III: PRAGMATIC PROPHET
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of these communities in generous detail. He traces the progressive heightening of class consciousness as the coal industry evolved from skilled hand labor to an increasingly mechanized extraction process and the escalating hostility between miners and mineowners ... Read more
This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of these communities in generous detail. He traces the progressive heightening of class consciousness as the coal industry evolved from skilled hand labor to an increasingly mechanized extraction process and the escalating hostility between miners and mineowners ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252065156
SKU
V9780252065156
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99-1
Reviews for Joseph Smith III: PRAGMATIC PROPHET
Winner of the John Whitmer History Association Best Book Award, 1989. Winner of the David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Evans Biography Award, 1989.