Hard Plains

Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts

Richard V. Kranlaviglia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

257 Seiten

1997
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-0-87745-609-4 (ISBN)

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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 landscapes 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.1997
Zusatzinfo	60 photos, 14 maps, 5 drawings
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	382 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-87745-609-7 / 0877456097
ISBN-13	978-0-87745-609-4 / 9780877456094
Zustand	Neuware