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The Face of Decline. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century.

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Description for The Face of Decline. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 62. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KNBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 261 x 39. Weight in Grams: 624.

The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses ... Read more

Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484735
SKU
V9780801484735
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99-1

About Thomas Dublin
Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of many books including When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times and Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, both from Cornell, and Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860, ... Read more

Reviews for The Face of Decline. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century.
The Face of Decline is a fine work of social history, broadly based in its approach, painstaking in its research, innovative in its methodology, and thoughtful in its conclusions. Like Dublin's When the Mines Closed, this work is essential for students both of deindustrialization and of the recent history of northeastern Pennsylvania. Just as significantly, The Face of Decline accomplishes ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Face of Decline. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century.


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