Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic

Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts (American Land & Life)
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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.
Country USA
Brand University of Iowa Press
Manufacturer University Of Iowa Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1997-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780877456094

Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts (American Land & Life)