Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania 9781439661833, 9781467126410

Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995 9780271086538

By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming

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Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania 9781611461763, 9781611461756

Examining the anthracite coal trade's emergence and legacy in the five counties that constituted the core of the in

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Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country 9780814724958

If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology,

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Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania 9780812293340

Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revol

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Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians 9780823237562

During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots i

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The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania 9780801811890, 0801811899

In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal

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ADAPTATION OF THE THEORY OF THE FIRM TO THE OPERATION OF A SINGLE-ENTERPRISE DAIRY FARM IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country 0593655265, 9780593655269

“A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts  

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People of Coal Town 9780231887892

Presents the story of life in a coal-mining community with the goal of enriching our understanding of community processe

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Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America 9781982148874, 2020000868, 9781982148867

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