Hope in Hard Times - Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression

Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Timothy Kelly is Professor of History at St. Vincent College. His most recent book is The Transformation of American Catholicism.Margaret Power is Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on the Transnational Right and author of Right-Wing Women in Chile, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.Michael Cary is Professor of History and Political Science at Seton Hill University and the author of This American Courthouse.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Cary, Michael (Seton Hill University) Cary, Timothy Kelly, Timothy (Saint Vincent College) Kelly, Kelly Timothy, Margaret Power, Margaret (Illinois Institute of Technology) Power
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.02.2017
• EAN: 9780271074672
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07467-2
• Abmessung: 178 mm x 254 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 590 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; ARCHITECTURE / Regional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), United States of America, USA, History of Architecture, History of the Americas