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City of Dust A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer
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Details
- Creator
- Gregg Andrews
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1996
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (387 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0826210740, 082621424X, 9780826264121, 0826264123
- OCLC
- ocn607800518, ocn905962122
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-346) and index.
- English
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- New Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I. A Foreign Colony in Mossback Missouri -- 1. From Robber Caves to Robber Barons: Atlas Portland Cement and the Transformation of Mark Twain's Boyhood Playground -- 2. Woodchopper Landlords and Cement Mill Tenants: The Social Origins of Ilasco -- 3. A Labor Camp in the Shadow of Atlas -- 4. The Wages of Cement -- 5. The Militia Comes to Town: Labor Unrest and the Strike of 1910 -- Part II. Whose Community -- 6. Extending the Control of Old Man Atlas, 1910-1930 -- 7. Schools and Churches -- 8. Company Patriotism and the War on Booze, Blacks, and Immigrants 1910-1930 -- 9. The Culture of Cement and the Forging of an Identity -- Part III. Dust to Dust: Big Business, the State, and the Destruction of Ilasco -- 10. New Landlord on the Block: The United States Steel Corporation, "Imperfect Collusion," and Depression-Era Ilasco -- 11. Gypsies Come to Town: A Union at Last -- 12. Ilasco and the Commercial Construction of Mark Twain -- 13. Render unto Atlas: The War on Community and Labor -- Epilogue: Whose History? Whose Mark Twain? -- Bibliography -- Index