Life in a Mining Community
Author: Natalie Hyde
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778750741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes daily life in a rural mining community in North America.
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Comstock Women
Author: Ronald M. James
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 1997-12-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0874174481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images of women in early mining towns as dance hall girls or prostitutes. Relying primarily on newspapers, court decisions, census records, as well as sparse personal diaries and records left by the woman, the essayists have resurrected the lives of the women who lived on the Comstock during the boom years.
Coal is Our Life
Author: Norman Dennis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity and Everyday Life
Author: Graham Day
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1134327358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Community' continues to be a persistent theme in political, philosophical and policy debates. The idea of community poses fundamental questions about social inclusion and exclusion, particular versus general interests, identity and belonging. As well as extensive theoretical literature in the social sciences, there is a rich body of social research aimed at exploring the nature of community, and evaluating its contribution to people's lives and well-being. Drawing on a wealth of international empirical examples and illustrations, this book reviews debates surrounding the idea of community. It examines changing patterns of community life and evaluates their importance for society and for individuals. As well as urban, rural and class-based communities, it explores other contemporary forms of community, such as social movements, communes and 'virtual' gatherings in cyberspace. Truly multidisciplinary, this book will be of interest to students of sociology, geography, political science and social policy and welfare. Grounded in a wide-ranging review of empirical research, it provides an overview of sociological debates surrounding the idea of community and relating them to the part community plays in people's everyday conceptions of identity.
What's It Like to Live Here? Mining Town
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1624315747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoung readers will be introduced to the types of housing, the landscape, and the experiences and opportunities representative of living in a mining town. Prompts, call-outs, and questions within the text encourage children to compare and contrast their own day-to-day life experiences with the information presented about mining towns and living in them. Text features such as captions, bold print, a glossary, and an index help readers locate key facts and information efficiently.
Ghost Towns of Arizona
Author: James E. Sherman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1969-08-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780806108438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pictorial survey of the past history of more than one hundred former mining towns in Arizona
There Used to Be Order
Author: Patience Mususa
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0472054996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrivatization and social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia
Community Life
Author: Graham Crow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317867017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1994. The sociology of community is currently undergoing something of a revival, and this book has been written with the aim of contributing to this process in a number of ways. First of all, it draws attention to the burgeoning literature on sociological aspects of community life. Secondly, its bring together the various studies considered here into a more coherent whole than they possess as simply a collection of separate pieces of research.
Mining North America
Author: John R. McNeill
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0520279174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
All that Glitters
Author: Elizabeth Jameson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780252066900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot a poor man's camp -- Staking the claims -- In union there is strength -- Sirs and brothers -- Imperfect unions -- A white man's camp -- Class-conscious lines -- As if we lived in free America -- Look away over Jordan.
