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From the miners' doublehouse : archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town
- Title
- From the miners' doublehouse : archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town / Karen Bescherer Metheny.
- Author
- Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960-
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.
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- Description
- xxix, 305 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Helvetia (Pa.) > Antiquities
- Community life > Pennsylvania > Helvetia > History
- Helvetia (Pa.) > Social life and customs
- Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Helvetia > History
- Coal miners > Pennsylvania > Helvetia > Social life and customs
- Oral history
- Helvetia (Pa.) > Biography
- Company towns > Pennsylvania > Case studies
- Landscapes > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Helvetia > History
- Helvetia (Pa.) > Buildings, structures, etc
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
- Contents
- Corporate paternalism and the company town -- Building the coal company town -- In the coal fields of western Pennsylvania : the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company -- We live in this place -- Oral histories from Helvetia : a community remembers -- How the miner lives : material culture and worker identity in a company town -- The miners' doublehouse : an archaeological perspective -- Creating environment : the physical landscape of the mining town -- Negotiating place : social discourse in a company town -- Appendix A : select papers of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company -- Appendix B : using oral histories from Helvetia.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-2233
- ISBN
- 1572334959 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781572334953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006011487
- OCLC
- 67727613
- Author
- Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960-
- Title
- From the miners' doublehouse : archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town / Karen Bescherer Metheny.
- Imprint
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
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- Added Author
- hg cft/wlt
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-2233