Raising Arizona's Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s - Hardcover

Rogge, A. E.; McWatters, D. Lorne; Keane, Melissa; Emanuel, Richard P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816514917 ISBN 13: 9780816514915

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rogge A E McWatters D Lorne Keane Melissa Emanuel

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"The authors treat us to an almost seamless marriage of history and archaeology, supported by a 'bottom up' approach and a public history sensibility. The result is a very readable account of the daily life of the transient wage workers who built the temporary construction towns and the enduring water management systems." --Journal of Arizona History"It is a thoughtful analysis of people of divergent backgrounds who came together for the purpose of making a living, an analysis of the towns they built and the lives they led. This most readable book is handsomely packaged . . . chock-full of fascinating historical photographs." --Tombstone Epitaph"An excellent overview." --Journal of the West"Social history of the working class is a difficult task. The combination of archaeological evidence with the historical record has given us this superb example of 'bottom-up history.'" --The Public Historian"It offers a convincing, well-written demonstration that transitory communities of wage-earning laborers have long played a significant role in Western history. As such, Raising Arizona's Dams deserves both popular and scholarly attention." --Technology and Culture

Reseña del editor:

These are the stories of the people who built the Arizona dams, the people that the history books forgot.
The book focuses on the lives of the laborers and their families, who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona along the Salt, Verde, and Agua Fria rivers. The authors call upon a wide array of sources - archaeological evidence, census counts, court documents, government records, newspapers and magazines, oral histories, and even historical novels - in reconstructing life in these long-forgotten camps. They describe the dynamic demography of the temporary communities, the physical conditions and social life of the camps, the nature and danger of the work, and the relations among various ethnic groups.

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• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0816514917
• ISBN 13: 9780816514915
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212