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Minstrels of the Mine Patch

Songs and Stories of the Anthracite Industry
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Preface

    VII
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    Contents

    IX
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    Introduction

    1
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    1. The Mine Patch

    13
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    2. Miners in Good Humor

    37
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    3. Boy Colliers

    94
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    4. Slavs as Miners

    125
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    5. Superstitions and Legends

    139
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    6. Injury and Death

    178
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    7. The Strike

    204
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    8. The Molly Maguires

    240
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    9. A Miscellany

    269
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    Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Traditional Bards and Minstrels

    289
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    Glossary of Anthracite Technical and Colloquial Words and Phrases

    311
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    Bibliography

    321
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    Index

    327
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eBook published on:
January 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9781512817379
Edition:
Reprint 2016
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336
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512817379
eBook ISBN: 9781512817379
Keywords for this book
Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics; Books of Regional Interest
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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