Beyond the Boundaries

Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875

AvLarry Lankton

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beyond the Boundaries is a companion volume in many ways to Lankton's Cradle to Grave (OUP 1991). Both books deal with copper mining in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan. While Cradle to Grave was concerned with the rise and fall of the copper mining industry - its technology, business practices, and human work experience - Beyond the Boundaries covers a more limited time period, 1840-1875, in the same region, and focuses instead on everyday life. It is essentially a book about men, women, and children, and families - not just their workplace but their homes, stores, churches, schools, hospitals and other aspects of community life as well. It is essentially the story of "reluctant pioneers," who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment.

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Utgivningsdatum:1997-11-13
Mått:164 x 241 x 23 mm
Vikt:573 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Press
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195108040

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Larry Lankton is Professor of History at Michigan Technological University. His previous publications include Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), winner of the 1992 Great Lakes History Prize.

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few people could write such an engaging book, ... it is a compelling social history of an important mining region in the mid-nineteenth century.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Water, Woods, and Winter: A Special Sense of Place 2: Heaving Up Jonah: The Travail of Travel 3: Settling In: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels 4: A Lapful of Apples: Foodways in the Far North 5: Keeping House: All the Work of the Family 6: Tasks at Hand: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls 7: Saints and Scholars: Village Churches and Schools 8: The Sins of the Body: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians 9: Ice Carnivals, Camels, and Sunday Trombones: Pioneer Pastimes 10: Shattered Hopes and Broken Prospects: Lunatics, Larcenists, and Lives of Woe 11: Transformations: A Long-Lived Frontier