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Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts
University of Iowa Press, 1997 Paper: 978-0-87745-609-4 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-070-1 Library of Congress Classification TN23.F73 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 333.7650973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Franklin, Wayne | Landscape | Mines and mineral resources | Natural Resources | Reading See other titles from University of Iowa Press |
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