The Black Rock That Built America
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Author | : Gerald L. McKerns |
Publisher | : GERALD MCKERNS |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781425753009 |
The Black Rock That Built America explains how, on the backs of thousands of European immigrants, America was transformed from a mostly rural nation into the world's greatest industrial power. As the nation expanded in the nineteenth century, anthracite coal fueled the making of steel, the building of railroads, the operation of factories, and the heating of homes. This book tells of the struggles these immigrant miners endured while performing the grueling and dangerous work of extracting anthracite coal from the earth in order to earn their place in America.
Author | : Gerald L. Mckerns |
Publisher | : Gerald Mckerns |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781425753054 |
Author | : Maureen Mahon |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-06-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780822333173 |
The original architects of rock 'n roll were black musicians, but by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans was no longer "authentically black." Mahon offers an in-depth account of how, since 1985, members of the Black Rock Coalition have broadened understandings of black identity and culture through rock music.
Author | : Jennifer M. Silva |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-07-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190888067 |
The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working-class translate their grievances into politics. In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt. The routines and rhythms of traditional working-class life such as manual labor, unions, marriage, church, and social clubs have diminished. In their place, she argues, individualized strategies for coping with pain, and finding personal redemption, have themselves become sources of political stimulus and reaction among the working class. Understanding how generations of Democratic voters come to reject the social safety net and often politics altogether requires moving beyond simple partisanship into a maze of addiction, joblessness, family disruption, violence, and trauma. Instead, Silva argues that we need to uncover the relationships, loyalties, longings, and moral visions that underlie and generate the civic and political disengagement of working-class people. We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics that will spark new tensions but also open up the possibility for shifting alliances and new possibilities.
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Total Pages | : 1272 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Lumber trade |
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Author | : Padraic Coffey |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788493117 |
You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? Or that the formula used to create the video game Tomb Raider was sketched on a bridge in Cabra in the nineteenth century? With one entry for every day of the year, this book marks the anniversaries of momentous events in Irish history: in politics, medicine, music, sport and innovation. In this accessible, comprehensive and authoritative book, discover the moments that have helped to shape the national identity of Ireland.
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Total Pages | : 1202 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Building |
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Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1938 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
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Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
Author | : John Disturnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
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Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
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