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

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"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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kelly, Timothy, 1960- (Author), Power, Margaret, 1953- (Author), Cary, Michael D., 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1929-1939
Planned communities > Pennsylvania > Norvelt > History.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Pennsylvania > Norvelt.
Depressions > 1929 > Pennsylvania > Westmoreland County.
Crises économiques > 1929 > Pennsylvanie > Westmoreland.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Depressions.
Planned communities.
Social conditions.
Norvelt (Pa.) > History.
Norvelt (Pa.) > Social conditions > History.
Pennsylvania > Norvelt.
Pennsylvania > Westmoreland County.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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