Subject: History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Subject: History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

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Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

|9780822966210|Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry|| Kenneth Warren| Regional| Business & Economics / Industries / Energy History / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

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Nature’s Entrepot

|9780822966500|Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds| In Nature’s Entrepot, the contributors view the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present. The chapters explore the history of the city, its natural resources, and the early naturalists who would influence future environmental policy. They then follow Philadelphia’s growing struggles with disease, sanitation, pollution, sewerage, transportation, population growth and decline, and other byproducts of urban expansion. Later chapters examine efforts in the modern era to preserve animal populations, self-sustaining food supplies, functional landscapes and urban planning, and environmental activism. Philadelphia’s place as an…

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Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830

|9780822966678| Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches.Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and…

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Coastal Metropolis

|9780822946526|Environmental Histories of Modern New York City|Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges…

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Homestead

|9780822966845|The Households of a Mill Town| Forward by Tom Waseleski First published in 1910 in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, this pioneering work of American social history, reproduced in its entirety, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. The town of Homestead, just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, developed as a completely separate city—a true mill town settled by newer immigrants and shaped in its attitudes by the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, which significantly set back unionization efforts in the steel industry. Homestead:The…

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