Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts

by Richard V. Francaviglia, Wayne Franklin (Foreword by)

Overview

Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587290701
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	09/01/1997
Series:	American Land & Life
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	237
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword Franklin Wayne
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE Reading the Landscape
CHAPTER TWO Interpreting the Landscape
CHAPTER THREE Perceiving the Landscape
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"An authoritative and well-written account of mining's legacy on the landscape and mining's historical relation to the economy, environment, and people."—Choice

"A sensitive and lucid blending of a broad spectrum of concepts from historical geography, historical anthropology, and architectural studies."—Journal of Cultural Geography

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