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Reading Pennsylvania's Working Landscapes
  • ISBN-13: 9780271060811
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Bill Conlogue
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2013
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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A collection of essays exploring the social, economic, and environmental elements of the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania.


Contents

List of Figures and Maps

Preface: Homework

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Orientation

1 Working Watersheds

2 Merwin and Mining

3 Fixing Fence

4 Barn Razing

5 Other Places

6 Rendering the Mounds of Home

Coda: Watersheds in Play

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“One can only wish that everyone loved the homes they were born into as much as Conlogue loves his; he renders Scranton and rural Wayne County with such enthusiasm and undying interest as to make the anthracite region appear rich with meaning and beauty.”

—Michael Buozis, Philadelphia Review of Books

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