Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past

Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past
ISBN-10
027106885X
ISBN-13
9780271068855
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2015-06-26
Publisher
Penn State Press
Author
Carolyn Kitch

Description

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.

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