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Hope in hard times : Norvelt and the struggle for community during the Great Depression /

"Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kelly, Timothy, 1960- (Autor), Power, Margaret, 1953- (Autor), Cary, Michael D., 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world of coal mining, coking, and patch communities in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1920
  • The crisis : the Great Depression in the nation and Westmoreland County
  • The response : the New Deal and the subsistence homestead program
  • The great experiment : the cooperative ethos and community building
  • Challenges to the cooperative ethos
  • Becoming Norvelt : the triumph of the middle way
  • Living in Norvelt : domestic architecture
  • Norvelt today : the evolution of a new deal community
  • Conclusion : did Norvelt succeed?