{"product_id":"pittsburgh-rising-from-frontier-town-to-steel-city-1750-1920-9780822967323","title":"Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920","description":"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. \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Rising\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward K. Muller (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdward K. Muller\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMaking Industrial Pittsburgh: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBefore Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books, and editor of \u003ci\u003eAn Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Ruck (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRob Ruck \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eTropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRooney: A Sporting Life\u003c\/i\u003e, among other titles. His documentaries \u003ci\u003eKings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game\u003c\/i\u003e appeared on PBS.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901264498962,"sku":"9780822967323","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a53455c7-c19a-4c16-9361-44b636a0c92c.jpg?v=1749038885","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pittsburgh-rising-from-frontier-town-to-steel-city-1750-1920-9780822967323","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}