From the miners' doublehouse
Subtitle: archaeology and landscape in a Pennsylvania coal company town
By: Karen Bescherer Metheny.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: enm
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781572334953
Subjects: Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- Social life and customs; Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History; Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Helvetia -- History; Company towns -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies; Oral history; Helvetia (Pa.) -- Antiquities; Helvetia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs; Helvetia (Pa.) -- Buildings, structures, etc; Helvetia (Pa.) -- Biography
Genres: Case studies.; Biography.
Description: "As the first archaeological and historical study of a coal company town that focuses upon the strategies its residents used to manipulate landscape and material culture to achieve personal and social goals, From the Miners' Doublehouse makes a significant contribution to historical and industrial archaeology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Corporate paternalism and the company town; title: Building the coal company town; title: In the coal fields of western Pennsylvania : the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company; title: We live in this place; title: Oral histories from Helvetia : a community remembers; title: How the miner lives : material culture and worker identity in a company town; title: The miners' doublehouse : an archaeological perspective; title: Creating environment : the physical landscape of the mining town; title: Negotiating place : social discourse in a company town; title: Appendix A : select papers of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company; title: Appendix B : using oral histories from Helvetia.