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Author : Alison K. Hoagland
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Norvelt and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania written by Alison K. Hoagland and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison K. Hoagland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331038255
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Norvelt and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania, Subsistence-Homestead Communities of the 1930s (Classic Reprint) written by Alison K. Hoagland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Norvelt and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania, Subsistence-Homestead Communities of the 1930s The coal region of Westmoreland and Fayette counties in western Pennsylvania is located on the hilly terrain of the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains. The coal bed underneath the surface is complemented by a topsoil rich in lime and suitable for farming. Superceding an agricultural tradition begun in colonial times, the coal-mining industry developed in the late nineteenth century. Americans who had lived in Pennsylvania for generations were joined by more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe to extract bituminous coal needed to fuel America's industries. Farmland gave way to coal mines and coke ovens, and towns with regular rows of two-story frame dwellings were constructed by coal companies to house the growing work force. When the coal industry faltered in the 1920s, western Pennsylvania-particularly Westmoreland and Fayette counties-was hard hit. As broad-reaching relief efforts, the New Deal-era communities of Norvelt and penn-craft were planned to provide a new way of life. Built as subsistence homesteads, the communities were designed to give each family a few acres of land to farm for their own consumption. Cooperative farms and industries were developed to provide employment. Physically, the new towns stood in stark contrast to the company towns. Using curvilinear streets, multiple house plans, and historic building traditions, Norvelt and penn-craft are conspicuous in the landscape as carefully planned communities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book HABS/HAER ... Annual Report written by Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward K. Muller
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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania written by Edward K. Muller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Curl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458784908
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book For All the People written by John Curl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The survival of indigenous communities and the first European settlers alike depended on a deeply cooperative style of living and working, based around common lands, shared food and labor. Cooperative movements proved integral to the grassroots organizations and struggles challenging the domination of unbridled capitalism in America's formative years. Holding aloft the vision for an alternative economic system based on cooperative industry, they have played a vital, and dynamic role in the struggle to create a better world. Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change - farmer, union, consumer, and communalist - that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, the chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. John Curl, with over forty years of experience as both an active member and scholar of cooperatives, masterfully melds theory, practice, knowledge and analysis, to present the definitive history from below of cooperative America.
Author : Nancy S. Shedd
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania written by Nancy S. Shedd and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627753
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America written by Timothy Miller and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.
Author : Hilary Susan Crew
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838912257
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Experiencing America’s Story through Fiction written by Hilary Susan Crew and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical fiction helps young adults imagine the past through the lives and relationships of its protagonists, putting them at the center of fascinating times and places--and the new Common Core Standards allow for use of novels alongside textbooks for teaching history. Perfect for classroom use and YA readers’ advisory, Crew’s book highlights more than 150 titles of historical fiction published since 2000 that are appropriate for seventh to twelfth graders. Choosing award-winners as well as novels which have been well-reviewed in Booklist, The Horn Book,Multicultural Review, History Teach, Journal of American History, and other periodicals, this resource assists librarians and educators bySpotlighting novels with a multiplicity of voices from different cultures, races, and ethnicitiesFeaturing both YA novels and novels written for adults that are appropriate for teensOffering thorough annotations, with an examination of each novel’s historical contentProviding discussion questions and online resources for classroom use that encourage students to think critically about the book and compare ideas and events in the story to actual historyThis book will help teachers of history as well as school and public librarians who work with youth to promote a more inclusive understanding of America’s story through historical fiction.
Author : Tracy E. K'Meyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226817814
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book To Live Peaceably Together written by Tracy E. K'Meyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Live Peaceably Together is a lively examination of the methods and accomplishments of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a primarily Quaker group that took a unique and influential approach to cultivating cultural acceptance of residential integration in America after World War II. K'Meyer offers a close study of how a social movement develops and wields influence, and how social activists do their work and why. Driven by detailed stories of activists and the obstacles they encountered, the book studies how a mostly white faith-based activist group worked to ally itself to a cause that demanded constant learning and reassessment. K'Meyer details the AFSC members' spiritual and humanist motivations, their understandings of segregation, their visions of integrated neighborhoods, as well as how their strategies changed as they came to better understand structural inequality, and how they were eventually adopted by other groups"--
Author : Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book HABS/HAER Review written by Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record and published by . This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Historic Preservation Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317668
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Building a Market written by Richard Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable television network, and thousands of home improvement stores. Building a Market charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well.
Author : Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455249
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Ogata-Mura written by Donald C. Wood and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura's development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village's economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.
Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567457
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2 written by Blanche Wiesen Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
