Beyond Rust : : Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America / / Allen Dieterich-Ward.
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and are...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 17 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction. The City and Its Region
- Part 1. The Steel Valley
- Chapter 1. Building the Region
- Chapter 2. Mines and Mills
- Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story
- Part II. A Region of Contrasts
- Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City
- Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be
- Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau
- Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point
- Part III. Post-Industrial Pittsburgh
- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh
- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh
- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel
- Epilogue
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments