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Author Kelly, Timothy, 1960- author.

Title Hope in hard times : Norvelt and the struggle for community during the Great Depression / Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, Michael Cary.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Summary "Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The world of coal mining, coking, and patch communities in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 -- The crisis : the Great Depression in the nation and Westmoreland County -- The response : the New Deal and the subsistence homestead program -- The great experiment : the cooperative ethos and community building -- Challenges to the cooperative ethos -- Becoming Norvelt : the triumph of the middle way -- Living in Norvelt : domestic architecture -- Norvelt today : the evolution of a new deal community -- Conclusion : did Norvelt succeed?
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Language English.
Subject Norvelt (Pa.) -- History.
Norvelt (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- History.
Planned communities -- Pennsylvania -- Norvelt -- History.
Planned communities.
Pennsylvania -- Norvelt.
History.
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Pennsylvania -- Norvelt.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County.
Depressions.
Chronological Term 1929
Subject Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County.
Chronological Term 1929-1939
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Power, Margaret, 1953- author.
Cary, Michael D., 1950- author.
Other Form: Print version: Kelly, Timothy, 1960- Hope in hard times. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] 9780271074665 (DLC) 2015050848 (OCoLC)929123095
ISBN 9780271078069 (electronic book)
0271078065 (electronic book)
9780271074665
0271074663