Hard places :: reading the landscape of America's historic mining districts /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Francaviglia, Richard V.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1997, 1991.
Ausgabe:[Pbk. ed., 1997].
Schriftenreihe:American land and life series.
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Zusammenfassung: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 landsca.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 257 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1587290707
9781587290701

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