Beyond the Boundaries

Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875

Larry Lankton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1997
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-510804-0 (ISBN)

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This is a social history of the families of the Keweenaw Peninsula area of Upper Michigan, from 1840 to 1875 when the district's main industry was copper mining. It is the story of these "reluctant pioneers", who survived in what was, in many ways, a hostile environment.

Beyond the Boundaries is a companion volume in many ways to Lankton's Cradle to Grave (OUP 1991). Both books deal with copper mining in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan. While Cradle to Grave was concerned with the rise and fall of the copper mining industry - its technology, business practices, and human work experience - Beyond the Boundaries covers a more limited time period, 1840-1875, in the same region, and focuses instead on everyday life. It is essentially a book about men, women, and children, and families - not just their workplace but their homes, stores, churches, schools, hospitals and other aspects of community life as well. It is essentially the story of "reluctant pioneers," who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment.

Larry Lankton is Professor of History at Michigan Technological University. His previous publications include Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), winner of the 1992 Great Lakes History Prize.

1: Water, Woods, and Winter: A Special Sense of Place
2: Heaving Up Jonah: The Travail of Travel
3: Settling In: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels
4: A Lapful of Apples: Foodways in the Far North
5: Keeping House: All the Work of the Family
6: Tasks at Hand: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls
7: Saints and Scholars: Village Churches and Schools
8: The Sins of the Body: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians
9: Ice Carnivals, Camels, and Sunday Trombones: Pioneer Pastimes
10: Shattered Hopes and Broken Prospects: Lunatics, Larcenists, and Lives of Woe
11: Transformations: A Long-Lived Frontier

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.1997
Zusatzinfo	20 pp halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	573 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-19-510804-3 / 0195108043
ISBN-13	978-0-19-510804-0 / 9780195108040
Zustand	Neuware