Afflicting the Comfortable

Thomas F Stafford

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• While investigating the Invest Right scandal, Thomas Stafford, a former journalist for the Charleston Gazette, found himself in a very precarious posi... Lees meer

An Appalachian Reawakening

Jerry B Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• As the long boom of post-World War II economic expansion spread across the globe, dreams of white picket fences, democratic ideals, and endless opport... Lees meer

Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets

John E Stealey

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In the early nineteenth century, a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebell... Lees meer

Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks

Ginny Savage Ayers, Lon Kelly Savage

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains, a popular history now considered a classic. When Savage passed away, he left behind an incomple... Lees meer

A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers

John Hennen

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights. The union of hospital workers usually referred to as the 1199 sits at the intersec... Lees meer

The Last Great Senator

David Corbin

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia | nr. 18
• No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving US senator. In The Last Great Senat... Lees meer

They'll Cut Off Your Project

Huey Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In old England, if a king didn't like you, he would cut off your head. Now, if they don't like you, they'll cut off your project! As the Johnson Admin... Lees meer

Memorializing Motherhood

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia | nr. 15
• Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet on the second Sunday in May, we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservatio... Lees meer

Clash of Loyalties

John W Shaffer

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• A border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. The wounds of the Civil War cut mo... Lees meer

Monongah

Davitt McAteer

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and c... Lees meer

Transnational West Virginia

Ken Fones-Wolf, Ronald L Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• Transnational West Virginia includes essays and studies on immigrant networks, such as Irish workers along the B&O Railroad, Wheeling Germans in the C... Lees meer

Working Class Radicals

Frederick A Barkey

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia | nr. 14
• Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through an ... Lees meer

Culture, Class, and Politics in Modern Appalachia

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• Takes stock of the field of Appalachian studies as it explores issues still at the centre of its scholarship: culture, industrialization, the labour m... Lees meer

Matewan Before the Massacre

Rebecca J Bailey

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• Provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in the late eighteenth century continuing up to the "Matewan Massacre". It covers the ... Lees meer

Memorializing Motherhood

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia | nr. 15
• Anna Jarvis organised the first official Mother's Day celebration in West Virginia in 1908 and then spent decades promoting the holiday and defending ... Lees meer

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

David Corbin

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia | nr. 16
• Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, a... Lees meer

Working Class Radicals

Frederick A Barkey

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through an ... Lees meer

Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers

John Hennen

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• THE UNION of hospital workers usually referred to as the 1199 sits at the intersection of three of the most important topics in US history: organized ... Lees meer

Industrialist and the Mountaineer

Ronald L Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensationa... Lees meer

Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861

Charles H Ambler

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• This 1910 study of sectionalism in Virginia illustrates how the east and west of Virginia were destined to separate into two states. Barbara Rasmussen... Lees meer

They'll Cut Off Your Project

Huey Perry

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In old England, if a king didn't like you, he would cut off your head. Now, if they don't like you, they'll cut off your project! As the Johnson Admin... Lees meer

The Industrialist and the Mountaineer

Ronald L Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensationa... Lees meer

Bringing Down the Mountains

Shirley S Burns

• Paperback | Engels | West Virginia & Appalachia
• Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining ... Lees meer