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22 produkter
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920
Häftad, 1998
486 kr
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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, …
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920
E-bok, 2000
535 kr
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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, …
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
E-bok, 2009
535 kr
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of …
Black Coal Miners in America
Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980
E-bok, 2014
551 kr
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From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in …
Black Coal Miners in America
Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in …
Iron Artisans
Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel
Inbunden, 2023
590 kr
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America’s emergence as a global industrial superpower was built on iron and steel, and despite their comparatively small numbers, no immigrant group played a more strategic role per capita in advancing basic industry than Welsh workers and managers. They immigrated in surges synchronized with the …
Transnational West Virginia
Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940
Av Ken Fones-Wolf, Ronald L. Lewis
Häftad, 2004
312 kr
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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 labors, from the antebellum …
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
E-bok, 2009
1578 kr
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of …
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
Häftad, 2014
674 kr
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of …
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 2, 1990
Transformation of Life and Labor in Appalachia
Häftad, 1990
225 kr
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This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Gordon B. McKinney; Jean Haskell Speer; Rodger Cunningham; Thomas A. Arcury; Rhonda England; Roger A. Lohmann; Richard P. Mulcahy; Kate Black; Beth Degutis; Garry Barker; Roberta Campbell and Alan J. DeYoung; …
Transnational West Virginia
"ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1840-1940"
Av RONALD L. LEWIS, KEN FONES-WOLF
E-bok, 2011
294 kr
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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 labors, from the antebellum …
Aspiring to Greatness
West Virginia University Since World War II
E-bok, 2013
147 kr
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Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II chronicles the emergence of WVU as a major land-grant institution. As a continuation of the work of Doherty and Summers in West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State , this book focuses on the modern …
Aspiring to Greatness
West Virginia University Since World War II
Inbunden, 2013
237 kr
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Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II chronicles the emergence of WVU as a major land-grant institution. As a continuation of the work of Doherty and Summers in West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State, this book focuses on the modern …
Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Fued and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Inbunden, 2017
935 kr
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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 …
Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Fued and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Häftad, 2017
312 kr
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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 …
Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia''s Timber Frontier
E-bok, 2017
244 kr
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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 …
Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia''s Timber Frontier
E-bok, 2017
244 kr
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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 …
Walter F. White
The NAACP's Ambassador for Racial Justice
Av Ronald L. Lewis, Robert L. Zangrando
Inbunden, 2019
725 kr
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Walter F. White of Atlanta, Georgia, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 as an assistant to Executive Secretary James Weldon Johnson. When Johnson retired in 1929, White replaced him as head of the NAACP, a position he maintained until his death in …
Walter F. White
The NAACP''s Ambassador for Racial Justice
Av Robert L. Zangrando, Robert Zangrando, RONALD L. LEWIS
E-bok, 2019
521 kr
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Walter F. White of Atlanta, Georgia, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 as an assistant to Executive Secretary James Weldon Johnson. When Johnson retired in 1929, White replaced him as head of the NAACP, a position he maintained until his death in …
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920
E-bok, 2000
535 kr
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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, …
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
E-bok, 2009
535 kr
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of …
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
E-bok, 2009
2051 kr
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of …
