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10%OFFElizabeth Jameson - All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (Working Class in American History) - 9780252066900 - V9780252066900
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All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (Working Class in American History)

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Description for All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (Working Class in American History) paperback. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 522.

At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners. 

Elizabeth Jameson tells the entertaining story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and, in 1903 and 1904, of one of its most crushing defeats. Jameson draws on working-class oral histories, the Victor and Cripple Creek Daily Press published by 34 of the local labor unions, and the 1900 manuscript census. She connects unions with lodges and fraternal associations, ethnic identity, families, ... Read more

Jameson's book will be required reading for western, ethnic, and working-class historians seeking an alternative interpretation of western mining struggles that emphasizes class, gender, and multiple sources of social identity.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
The Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066900
SKU
V9780252066900
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Elizabeth Jameson
Elizabeth Jameson is a professor emerita of history at the University of Calgary. She is coeditor of The Women's Westand Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West.

Reviews for All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (Working Class in American History)
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1999.   Winner of the Rodman W. Paul Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mining History, 1999. "A model of nuanced social history."
Dana Frank, Journal of American History "No historian has so effectively brought to life the richness, strength, and contradictions of working-class life and politics in the West."
Gunther Peck, Western Historical Quarterly

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