The Cornish Miner
Title | The Cornish Miner PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Copper |
ISBN |
The Cornish Miner
Title | The Cornish Miner PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Mines Cornwall |
ISBN |
The Cornish Miner
Title | The Cornish Miner PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781902395067 |
The Cornish Miner: an Account of His Life Above and Underground from Early Times
Title | The Cornish Miner: an Account of His Life Above and Underground from Early Times PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Librarian and Book World
Title | The Librarian and Book World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Cradle to Grave
Title | Cradle to Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Lankton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1993-02-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019028207X |
Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.
Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913
Title | Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Passey |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2023-06-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786839938 |
This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.