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Beyond Rust : Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and Culture in Modern America SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292022
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond RustDDC classification:
  • 307.3/4160974886
LOC classification:
  • HT177.P5D54 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- BEYOND RUST -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- 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. POST-INDUSTRIAL PITTSBURGH -- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh -- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh -- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- BEYOND RUST -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- 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. POST-INDUSTRIAL PITTSBURGH -- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh -- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh -- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

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.

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