Hard Places Hard Places
American Land & Life

Hard Places

Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
1997
1 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
237
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Iowa Press
SIZE
15.3
MB

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