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Dissertation Information for Colleen Stitt

NAME:
- Colleen Stitt

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Arizona State University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Brian Gratton

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Rachel G. Fuchs
- Vicki L. Ruiz
- F. Arturo Rosales

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Fickle friends: Copper and community in Globe, Arizona, 1900-1930

Abstract: This dissertation draws on a variety of sources to study how economic events and decisions made thousands of miles away during the first one-third of the twentieth century impacted on Globe, Arizona, a remote southwestern copper mining community. The years between 1900 and 1930 provide the temporal frame, for during these years the copper mines in Globe experienced the dramatic boom and bust economic cycles that define a natural resource based economy. At the beginning of the period, Globe's mines climbed to prominence among the industry's producers, reaching their apogee during the Great War. Oversupply and depressed markets brought the industry to its knees in 1920 and 1921. Although copper recovered gradually throughout the 1920s, Globe's brightest star, the Old Dominion, was never able to regain its former stature after the war, and by 1931 the mine was dead.

The community rose and fell in step with its primary industry. The manuscript censuses of 1900, 1910, and 1920 show how the community evolved from a frontier camp to a more "typical" town of families, schools, and churches. Other sources illustrate additional changes imbedded within this transformation. Ethnic communities formed and dissolved in response to nativist sentiment in town. Single parents struggled to keep body and soul together on indigent allowances and widows' pensions. Children grew to adulthood, married, and started families of their own. Insurance maps reveal the changing nature of business on Broad Street, the town's main street, as blacksmiths and dry goods merchants gave way to automobile dealers and F. W. Woolworth's. The Great War generated intense internal divisions, and the copper industry's collapse worked tremendous hardship on the town, yet the community survived.


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calculated 2008-05-04 20:26:08

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