From the Miners' Doublehouse Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town |
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| Author:
| Metheny, Karen Bescherer |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57233-495-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of Tennessee Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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In From the Miners' Doublehouse, archaeologist Karen Metheny uses an interpretive, contextual approach to examine the physical and cultural landscape of the now-abandoned coal-mining town of Helvetia in western Pennsylvania. The author weaves together documentary sources, oral history, and archaeological evidence to reveal the ways in which mine workers constructed a sense of community in this company town from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth.
In From the Miners' Doublehouse, archaeologist Karen Metheny uses an interpretive, contextual approach to examine the physical and cultural landscape of the now-abandoned coal-mining town of Helvetia in western Pennsylvania. The author weaves together documentary sources, oral history, and archaeological evidence to reveal the ways in which mine workers constructed a sense of community in this company town from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth.