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Mine Towns
Alison K. Hoagland
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Description for Mine Towns
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 115 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 285 x 22. Weight in Grams: 706.
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America’s first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region’s vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location—and work long hours in dangerous conditions—companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools, health-care facilities, and churches. The first working-class history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland’s Mine Towns investigates how the architecture ... Read more
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America’s first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region’s vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location—and work long hours in dangerous conditions—companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools, health-care facilities, and churches. The first working-class history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland’s Mine Towns investigates how the architecture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665679
SKU
V9780816665679
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Ref
99-15
About Alison K. Hoagland
Alison K. Hoagland is professor of history and historic preservation at Michigan Technological University and the author of Buildings of Alaska and Army Architecture in the West: Forts Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell, 1849–1912.
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