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Beyond Rust : Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America /
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and are...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction. The City and Its Region
- Part 1. The Steel Valley
- Chapter 1. Building the Region
- Chapter 2. Mines and Mills
- Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story
- Part II. A Region of Contrasts
- Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City
- Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be
- Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau
- Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point
- Part III. Post-Industrial Pittsburgh
- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh
- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh
- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel
- Epilogue
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments