From the miners' doublehouse : archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town / Karen Bescherer Metheny

Author:: Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960-
Published:: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: xxix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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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.

Subject(s):

Coal miners—Pennsylvania—Helvetia—Social life and customs
Community life—Pennsylvania—Helvetia—History
Coal mines and mining—Social aspects—Pennsylvania—Helvetia—History
Landscapes—Social aspects—Pennsylvania—Helvetia—History
Company towns—Pennsylvania—Case studies
Oral history
Helvetia (Pa.)—Biography
Helvetia (Pa.)—Social life and customs
Helvetia (Pa.)—Buildings, structures, etc
Helvetia (Pa.)—Antiquities

ISBN:

1572334959 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781572334953 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-297) and index.

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