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Dickens and His Illustrators
- Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, Phiz, Cattermole, Leech, Coyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fields. With Twenty-two Portraits and Facsimiles of Seventy Original...
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Frederic George 1856-1904 Kitton
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R1,078
Discovery Miles 10 780
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Far Country
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John L Barnwell; Edited by Stephen Barnwell; Introduction by Siedell Daniel
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R1,187
Discovery Miles 11 870
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Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula juts into Lake Superior, pointing
from the western Upper Peninsula toward Canada. Native peoples
mined copper there for at least five thousand years, but the
industrial heyday of the "Copper Country" began in the late
nineteenth century, as immigrants from Cornwall, Italy, Finland,
and elsewhere came to work in mines largely run from faraway cities
such as New York and Boston. In those cities, suburbs had developed
to allow wealthier classes to escape the dirt and grime of the
industrial center. In the Copper Country, however, the suburbs
sprang up nearly adjacent to mines, mills, and coal docks. Sarah
Fayen Scarlett contrasts two types of neighborhoods that
transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920:
paternalistic company towns built for the workers and elite suburbs
created by the region's network of business leaders. Richly
illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, Company Suburbs
details the development of these understudied cultural landscapes
that arose when elites began to build housing that was
architecturally distinct from that of the multiethnic workers
within the old company towns. They followed national trends and
created social hierarchies in the process, but also, uniquely,
incorporated pre-existing mining features and adapted company
housing practices. This idiosyncratic form of suburbanization
belies the assumption that suburbs and industry were independent
developments. Built environments evince interrelationships among
landscapes, people, and power. Scarlett's work offers new
perspectives on emerging national attitudes linking domestic
architecture with class and gender identity. Company Suburbs
complements scholarship on both industrial communities and early
suburban growth, increasing our understanding of the ways
hierarchies associated with industrial capitalism have been built
into the shared environments of urban areas as well as seemingly
peripheral American towns.
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