| Description |
1 online resource |
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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? |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Planned communities -- Pennsylvania -- Norvelt -- History
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New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Pennsylvania -- Norvelt
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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New Deal, 1933-1939
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Depressions
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Planned communities
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History
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Norvelt (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- History
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| Subject |
Pennsylvania -- Norvelt
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Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Power, Margaret, 1953- author
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Cary, Michael D., 1950- author.
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| ISBN |
9780271078069 |
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0271078065 |
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0271078049 |
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9780271078045 |
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