Beyond Rust - Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America

Informationen zum Autor Allen Dieterich-Ward is Associate Professor of History at Shippensburg University. Klappentext Allen Dieterich-Ward is Associate Professor of History at Shippensburg University. Zusammenfassung Beyond Rust is among the first books of its kind to continue past the collapse of American manufacturing in the 1980s by exploring the diverse ways residents of an iconic industrial region sought places for themselves within a new economic order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction. The City and Its Region PART I. THE STEEL VALLEY Chapter 1. Building the Region Chapter 2. Mines and Mills Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story PART II. A REGION OF CONTRASTS Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point PART III. POSTINDUSTRIAL PITTSBURGH Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel Epilogue Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments

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• Autori: Allen Dieterich-Ward
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780812223927
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2392-7
• Pagine: 360
• Serie: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Sociology, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban