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Review of Three Iron Mining Towns, by Paul H. Landis, Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press. 1997. 145 pages. $14.95 (paperback). ISBN:0-941042-19-7. Rural Sociology, Sept. 2004, Vol 69, Number 3, page 459
Rural Sociology 69:459-462
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Reviewed by Mark Brennan
University of Florida
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Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change, first published in 1938 and reissued by Social Ecology Press,
is an analysis of the interdependence between society and the natural environment.
In his now classic text, Landis traced the social and economic development of three Minnesota mining settlements
(Virginia, Hibbing, Eveleth) through their formation and growth years, into their maturity, and through their decline
during the early 1900s. Such growth and decline resulted largely because of their broad dependence on local natural
resource supplies as a means of economic viability. In exploring the social and economic conditions 8in these locations,
Landis provides a detailed and well-written framework for investigating the interaction between society and
the natural environment. The author also provides a particularly strong example of case study research and supplies a
methodology for other researchers. The text remains relevant as a landmark sociological study and as a guide for current
and future research.
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