Beyond the Boundaries

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

AvLarry Lankton

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling 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. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-06-24
Mått:153 x 233 x 16 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195132434

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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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"The social history of the mining frontier should be written and researched as well as Larry Lankton's Beyond the Boundaries....The book is a treat to read and a worthy contribution to helping us understand frontier mining societies."--Mining History News

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