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Author : Sylvester Kirby Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania: Titan of Industry written by Sylvester Kirby Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Frank Weigley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393016109
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia written by Russell Frank Weigley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the definitive comprehensive history of Philadelphia, the reader will discover a rich and colorful portrait of one of America's most vital, interesting, and illustrious cities.
Author : Philip S. Klein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027103839X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book History of Pennsylvania written by Philip S. Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward K. Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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 : David A. Waples
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649154X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia written by David A. Waples and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glass industries in Pittsburgh, and local gas companies evolved from individual wells to an interstate supply network acquired by Rockefeller’s Standard Oil interests. Natural gas is now a prevalent part of American markets and with the production from the Marcellus shale is filling the critical void left by a lack of new coal, oil, and nuclear power facilities. This vital American enterprise began in the Appalachian states as an accidental and underestimated byproduct of the oil rush of 1859. This book explores the evolution and significance of the natural gas industry to the present day.
Author : J. Roffe Wike
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280844X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association written by J. Roffe Wike and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074566
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author : Mildred A. Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271015675
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John C. Paige
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Railroad Shops and Works, Altoona, Pennsylvania written by John C. Paige and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Phase I Airport Busway/Wabash HOV, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bezilla
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811702317
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Rails to Penn State written by Michael Bezilla and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than five hundred short line railroads existed in the United States at the industry's height, and Pennsylvania had more than any other state. The history of the Bellefonte Central, which operated in central Pennsylvania from the 1880s until 1982, is a classic story of the rise and decline of short line railroads nationwide. Connecting with the Pennsylvania Railroad--a company that proved to be both friend and foe--the Bellefonte Central played an important role in developing the region's renowned limestone and hot-blast ironmaking industries and was Penn State University's economic lifeline for generations.
Author : Sharon A. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Cambria Iron Company written by Sharon A. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon A. Brown
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historic Resource Study written by Sharon A. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351153781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers written by Andrew Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history, it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social, labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding of nineteenth-century America.
Author : John Bodnar
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975238
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Steelton written by John Bodnar and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the immigrants who flocked to this Central Pennsylvania steel town in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, they formed the lower class of this town. Analyzes the social structure and dominance of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant elite.
Author : Joann Cantrell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467101087
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Pittsburgh written by Joann Cantrell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh is a city rich in history, perhaps best known as the industrial hub for steel production, but it is also a city with deep roots of personal achievement. From Andrew Carnegie and his important role in putting the "Steel City" on the map to beloved Fred Rogers, renowned early childhood educator, creator, and television host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, countless individuals have made a lasting impact on the community and the nation. Those featured in Legendary Locals of Pittsburgh have played vital roles in the medical field, such as Dr. Kenneth L. Garver, and served as quiet heroes, like Norman and Margaret Samways, Edith Balas, and Harold McKamish--all of whom have contributed to Pittsburgh's unique identity through public service, business, education, and volunteerism. And chances are, readers just might know more than a few of the wide variety of people profiled who have left an indelible mark on a city they loved.
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Publisher : Theta Chi Fraternity Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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