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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
Publication date
October 1, 1998
Pages
182
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822940760
ISBN-10
0822940760
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.75 in.
Original list price
$27.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A powerful and revealing journey into America's industrial heartland offers a uniquely focused history of Pittsburgh, showing the living traditions of its neighborhoods and discussing how the decline of industrial towns and jobs has an impact on American life today. UP.
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Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has doneâboth to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart.
Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little understood and appreciated, Graham set out to investigate the cityâs landscape, past and present, and to learn the lessons she sensed were there about living a good life. The result, told in both her voice and the distinctive voices of the people she meets, is a powerful contribution to the literature of place.
Graham begins by showing the city as an outgrowth of its geography and its geologyâthe factors that led to its becoming an industrial place. She describes the human investment in the area: the floods of immigrants who came to work in the mills in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their struggles within the domains of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. She evokes the superhuman aura of making steel by taking the reader to still functioning mills and uncovers for us a richness of tradition in ethnic neighborhoods that survives to this day.
Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little understood and appreciated, Graham set out to investigate the cityâs landscape, past and present, and to learn the lessons she sensed were there about living a good life. The result, told in both her voice and the distinctive voices of the people she meets, is a powerful contribution to the literature of place.
Graham begins by showing the city as an outgrowth of its geography and its geologyâthe factors that led to its becoming an industrial place. She describes the human investment in the area: the floods of immigrants who came to work in the mills in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their struggles within the domains of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. She evokes the superhuman aura of making steel by taking the reader to still functioning mills and uncovers for us a richness of tradition in ethnic neighborhoods that survives to this day.
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9780822940760 | details & prices | 182 pages | 6.00 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $27.95
About: A powerful and revealing journey into America's industrial heartland offers a uniquely focused history of Pittsburgh, showing the living traditions of its neighborhoods and discussing how the decline of industrial towns and jobs has an impact on American life today.
About: A powerful and revealing journey into America's industrial heartland offers a uniquely focused history of Pittsburgh, showing the living traditions of its neighborhoods and discussing how the decline of industrial towns and jobs has an impact on American life today.
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