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Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country / Alison K. Hoagland.
Fine Arts Library NA9053.C57 H63 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Company town architecture--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.
- Company town architecture.
- Architecture, Domestic--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture and society--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--History--19th century.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture and society--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--History--20th century.
- History.
- Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Negotiating paternalism in the Copper Country
- Saltboxes and T-plans : creating and inhabiting the company house
- The spaces of a strike : company buildings and landscapes in a time of conflict
- "Home for the working man" : strategies for homeownership
- Acquiring conveniences : water, heat, and light
- Churches, schools, bathhouses : building community on company land
- Preservation and loss : remembering through buildings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816665662
- 0816665664
- 9780816665679
- 0816665672
- OCLC:
- 465330575
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