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Hope in Hard Times : Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271078069
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hope in Hard TimesDDC classification:
  • 974.8/81
LOC classification:
  • F159.N88 .K45 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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