Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 by Muller, Edward

Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822967323)

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Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 by Muller, Edward

Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

$20.00
Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 by Muller, Edward

Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the Ohio Valley. Resources, geography, innovation, and personalities led to successful glass, iron, and eventually steel operations. As Pittsburgh blossomed into one of the largest cities in the country and became a center of industry, it generated great wealth for industrial and banking leaders. But immigrants and African American migrants, who labored under insecure, poorly paid, and dangerous conditions, did not share in the rewards of growth. Pittsburgh Rising traces the lives of individuals and families who lived and worked in this early industrial city, jammed into unhealthy housing in overcrowded neighborhoods near the mills. Although workers organized labor unions to improve conditions and charitable groups and reform organizations, often helmed by women, mitigated some of the deplorable conditions, authors Muller and Ruck show that divides along class, religious, ethnic, and racial lines weakened the efforts to improve the inequalities of early twentieth-century Pittsburgh--and persist today.

Author: Edward Muller, Rob Ruck
ISBN-10: 0822967324
ISBN-13: 9780822967323
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
By Edward Muller
By Edward Muller
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Edward K. Muller is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh and former director of the university's Urban Studies Program. He focuses on the history and geography of North American cities, particularly Pittsburgh. He is coauthor of Making Industrial Pittsburgh: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning and Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943, among other books, and editor of An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail and DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good, among other books.

Rob Ruck is a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches and writes about sport. He focuses on how people use sport to tell a collective story about who they are to themselves and the world. He is the author of Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, and Rooney: A Sporting Life, among other titles. His documentaries Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men and The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game appeared on PBS.

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