Author: Paul Henry LandisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Three iron mining towns
Author: Paul Henry LandisThree Iron Mining Towns
Author: Paul Henry LandisPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
One Day for Democracy
Author: Mary Lou NemanicPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821417304
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Just before the turn of the twentieth century, immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who had settled in mining regions of Minnesota formed a subculture that combined elements of Old World traditions and American culture. Their unique pluralistic version of Americanism was expressed in Fourth of July celebrations rooted in European carnival traditions that included rough games, cross-dressing, and rowdiness. In One Day for Democracy, Mary Lou Nemanic traces the festive history of Independence Day from 1776 to the twentieth century. The author shows how these diverse immigrant groups on the Minnesota Iron Range created their own version of the celebration, the Iron Range Fourth of July. As mass-mediated popular culture emerged in the twentieth century, Fourth of July celebrations in the Iron Range began to include such popular culture elements as beauty queens and marching bands. Nemanic documents the enormous influence of these changes on this isolated region and highlights the complex interplay between popular culture and identity construction. But this is not a typical story of assimilation or ethnic separation. Instead, One Day for Democracy reveals how more than thirty different ethnic groups who shared identities as both workers and new Americans came together in a remote mining region to create their own subculture.
Miscellaneous Series
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
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Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943
Author: Robert L. ReidPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873512480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Picturing Minnesota brings together the best of the images taken in Minnesota from the collection of photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the depression era and the advent of World War II. Among the photographers represented here are John Vachon, a native of St. Paul, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein and Marion Post Wolcott. Outstanding as photographic works of art, these pictures are unique in their ability to convey the details of life in Minnesota during those years"--Publisher's description from lensculture.com.
Mining North America
Author: John R. McNeillPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520279174
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Bulletin
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Hard Places
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877456094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.
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