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  • - The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920
    av Frederick A. Barkey
    409,-

    Examines the rise and fall of organised socialism in West Virginia through an exploration of the demographics of membership, oral interview material gathered in the 1960s from party members, and the collapse of the party in 1912. Ths volume offers insight into the internal and external forces that doomed the party and serves as a cautionary tale to contemporary political leaders and organisers.

  • - Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks
    av Ginny Savage Ayers & Lon Kelly Savage
    453,-

    In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains, a popular history now considered a classic. When Savage passed away, he left behind an incomplete book manuscript about a lesser-known Mother Jones crusade in Kanawha County. His daughter Ginny drew on his notes and files, and her own research, to complete this book-length account of the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-13.

  • - Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community
    av Rebecca J. Bailey
    453,-

    Provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in the late eighteenth century continuing up to the "Matewan Massacre". It covers the relevant economic history, including the development of the coal mine industry and the struggles over land ownership; labour history; transportation history; political history; and the impact of the state's governors and legislatures on Mingo County.

  • - The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia
    av Shirley S. Burns
    468,-

    Provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen.

  • av John E. Stealey
    409,-

    In the early nineteenth century, a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebellum United States. In his illuminating study, now available with a new preface by the author, John Stealey examines the legal basis of this industry, its labour practices, and its marketing and distribution patterns.

  • - Essays in Honor of Ronald L. Lewis
     
    1 453,-

    Takes stock of the field of Appalachian studies as it explores issues still at the centre of its scholarship: culture, industrialization, the labour movement, and twentieth-century economic and political failure and their social impact. A new generation of scholars continues the work of Appalachian studies' pioneers, exploring the diversity and complexity of the region and its people.

  • - The Eastham-Thompson Fued and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
    av Ronald L. Lewis
    438 - 1 173,-

    In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.

  • - Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
     
    386,-

    Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honour our mothers, all because of her. Memorializing Motherhood explores the complicated history of Anna Jarvis's movement to establish and control Mother's Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.

  • - The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
    av Davitt McAteer
    409,-

    To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Monongah, West Virginia mine disaster, the West Virginia University Press is honored to carry Davitt McAteer's definitive history of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. "Monongah" documents the events that led to the explosion, which claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907.Nearly thirty years of exhaustive research have led McAteer to the conclusion that close to 500 men and boys--many of them immigrants--lost their lives that day, leaving hundreds of women widowed and more than one thousand children orphaned. McAteer delves deeply into the personalities, economic forces, and social landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tragedy at Monongah led to a greater awareness of industrial working conditions, and ultimately to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which Davitt McAteer helped to enact.

  • - Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940
    av Ken Fones-Wolf & Ronald L. Lewis
    453,-

    West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states. But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labours, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal miners.

  • av Charles H. Ambler
    548,-

    This 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia illustrates how the east and west of Virginia were destined to separate into two states. Barbara Rasmussen, professor of Public History at West Virginia University has written a new introduction, setting Ambler's grand achievement into the context of its production by creating an historical process for studying West Virginia history.

  • - Essays in Honor of Ronald L. Lewis
     
    468,-

    Takes stock of the field of Appalachian studies as it explores issues still at the centre of its scholarship: culture, industrialization, the labour movement, and twentieth-century economic and political failure and their social impact. A new generation of scholars continues the work of Appalachian studies' pioneers, exploring the diversity and complexity of the region and its people.

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