Hope in Hard Times : Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression.
Kelly, Timothy.
Hope in Hard Times : Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (277 pages)
COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: The World of Coal Mining, Coking, and Patch Communitiesin Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: The Crisis: The Great Depression in the Nation and Westmoreland County -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Response: The New Deal and the Subsistence Homestead Program -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: The Great Experiment: The Cooperative Ethos and Community Building -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Challenges to the Cooperative Ethos -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Becoming Norvelt: The Triumph of the Middle Way -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Living in Norvelt: Domestic Architecture -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Norvelt Today: The Evolution of a New Deal Community -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Conclusion: Did Norvelt Succeed? -- Notes to Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviewees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.
No detailed description available for "Hope in Hard Times".
9780271078069
New Deal, 1933-1939-Pennsylvania-Norvelt.
Depressions-1929-Pennsylvania-Westmoreland County.
Planned communities-Pennsylvania-Norvelt-History.
Norvelt (Pa.)-History.
Norvelt (Pa.)-Social conditions-History.
Electronic books.
F159.N88 / .K45 2016
974.8/81
Hope in Hard Times : Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (277 pages)
COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: The World of Coal Mining, Coking, and Patch Communitiesin Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: The Crisis: The Great Depression in the Nation and Westmoreland County -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Response: The New Deal and the Subsistence Homestead Program -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: The Great Experiment: The Cooperative Ethos and Community Building -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Challenges to the Cooperative Ethos -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Becoming Norvelt: The Triumph of the Middle Way -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Living in Norvelt: Domestic Architecture -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Norvelt Today: The Evolution of a New Deal Community -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Conclusion: Did Norvelt Succeed? -- Notes to Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviewees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.
No detailed description available for "Hope in Hard Times".
9780271078069
New Deal, 1933-1939-Pennsylvania-Norvelt.
Depressions-1929-Pennsylvania-Westmoreland County.
Planned communities-Pennsylvania-Norvelt-History.
Norvelt (Pa.)-History.
Norvelt (Pa.)-Social conditions-History.
Electronic books.
F159.N88 / .K45 2016
974.8/81