Edward Muller, Rob Ruck

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh's Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822967323
• ISBN-10: 0822967324
• Artikelnr.: 70352449

Autorenporträt

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.