Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania 9781439661833, 9781467126410

Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995 9780271086538

By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming

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Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country 9780814724958

If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology,

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Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania 9780812293340

Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revol

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The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania 9780801811890, 0801811899

In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal

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Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff: A Guide to Country Antiques 9781512821147

This authoritative work was, at the time of its first publication, the first full-length book to cover in detail the col

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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country 0593655265, 9780593655269

“A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts  

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People of Coal Town 9780231887892

Presents the story of life in a coal-mining community with the goal of enriching our understanding of community processe

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Lotharingia: a personal history of Europe's lost country [First American edition] 9780374714611, 0374714614

FollowingGermaniaandDanubia, the third installment in Simon Winder’s personal history of Europe In 843 AD, the three su

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Stories of Pennsylvania or School Readings from Pennsylvania History

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Coal, Climate Change & The Total Destruction of the British Coal Mining industry

Large format (A4 size) book by David John Douglas giving a union and worker-centric position on current conflicting posi

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