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Book Synopsis West Virginia and the Captains of Industry by : John Alexander Williams
Download or read book West Virginia and the Captains of Industry written by John Alexander Williams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Facts about West Virginia and Its Industrial Opportunities by : West Virginia. Industrial and Publicity Commission
Download or read book A Handbook of Facts about West Virginia and Its Industrial Opportunities written by West Virginia. Industrial and Publicity Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Virginia written by Otis K. Rice and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Book Synopsis West Virginia: A History by : John Alexander Williams
Download or read book West Virginia: A History written by John Alexander Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984-08-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state. In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events—the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek disasters, and more. Williams uses these pivotal events as introductions to the larger issues of statehood, Civil War, unionism, and industrialization. Along the way, Williams conveys a true feel for the lives of common West Virginians, the personalities of the state's memorable characters, and the powerful influence of the land itself on its own history.
Book Synopsis A Community Guide to Industrial Development in West Virginia by : West Virginia. Industrial Development Division
Download or read book A Community Guide to Industrial Development in West Virginia written by West Virginia. Industrial Development Division and published by . This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Americanization of West Virginia by : John C. Hennen
Download or read book The Americanization of West Virginia written by John C. Hennen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America publicity video. But as John C. Hennen shows in this piercing analysis of early-twentieth-century American political culture, from 1916 to 1925 "Americanization" became the theme—indeed, the script—not only of West Virginia but of the entire nation. Hennen's interdisciplinary work examines a formative period in West Virginia's modern history that has been largely neglected beyond the traditional focus on the coal industry. Hennen looks at education, reform, and industrial relations in the state in the context of war mobilization, postwar instability, and national economic expansion. The First World War, he says, consolidated the dominant positions of professionals, business people, and political capitalists as arbiters of national values. These leaders emerged from the war determined to make free-market business principles synonymous with patriotic citizenship. Americanization, therefore, refers less to the assimilation of immigrants into the national mainstream than to the attempt to encode values that would guarantee a literate, loyal, and obedient producing class. To ensure that the state fulfilled its designated role as a resource zone for the perceived greater good of national strength, corporate leaders employed public relations tactics that the Wilson administration had refined to gain public support for the war. Alarmed by widespread labor activism and threatened by fears of communism, the American Constitutional Association in West Virginia, one of dozens of similar organizations nationwide, articulated principles that identified the well-being of business with the well-being of the country. With easy access to teacher training and classroom programs, antiunion forces had by 1923 rolled back the wartime gains of the United Mine Workers of America. Middle-class voluntary organizations like the American Legion and the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs helped implant mandated loyalty in schoolchildren. Far from being isolated during America's transformation into a world power, West Virginia was squarely in the mainstream. The state's people and natural resources were manipulated into serving crucial functions as producers and fuel for the postwar economy. Hennen's study, therefore, is a study less of the power or force of ideas than of the importance of access to the means to transmit ideas. The winner of the1995 Appalachian Studies Award is a significant contribution to regional studies as well as to our understanding of American culture during and after World War I.
Book Synopsis 1915 Hand-book of West Virginia by : George Byrne
Download or read book 1915 Hand-book of West Virginia written by George Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Facts about West Virginia and Its Industrial Opportunities by : West Virginia. Industrial and publicity committee
Download or read book A Handbook of Facts about West Virginia and Its Industrial Opportunities written by West Virginia. Industrial and publicity committee and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smokestacks in the Hills by : Lou Martin
Download or read book Smokestacks in the Hills written by Lou Martin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class--and what that meant for communities and for labor. As Martin shows, access to land in and around steel and pottery towns allowed residents to preserve rural habits and culture. Workers in these places valued place and local community. Because of their belief in localism, an individualistic ethic of "making do," and company loyalty, they often worked to place limits on union influence. At the same time, this localism allowed workers to adapt to the dictates of industrial capitalism and a continually changing world on their own terms--and retain rural ways to a degree unknown among their urbanized peers. Throughout, Martin ties these themes to illuminating discussions of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. Revealing and incisive, Smokestacks in the Hills reappraises an overlooked stratum of American labor history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on shifts in national politics in the postwar era.
Book Synopsis History and Government of West Virginia by : Virgil Anson Lewis
Download or read book History and Government of West Virginia written by Virgil Anson Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sixteenth Year of the West Virginia Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., with a History of Its Officers by : West Virginia. Industrial Union Council
Download or read book Sixteenth Year of the West Virginia Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., with a History of Its Officers written by West Virginia. Industrial Union Council and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fifteenth Year of the West Virginia Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., with a History of Its Officers by : West Virginia. Industrial Union Council
Download or read book Fifteenth Year of the West Virginia Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., with a History of Its Officers written by West Virginia. Industrial Union Council and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Virginia by : Morris Purdy Shawkey
Download or read book West Virginia written by Morris Purdy Shawkey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Virginia, in History, Life, Literature and Industry by : Morris Purdy Shawkey
Download or read book West Virginia, in History, Life, Literature and Industry written by Morris Purdy Shawkey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History and Government of West Virginia by : Richard Ellsworth Fast
Download or read book The History and Government of West Virginia written by Richard Ellsworth Fast and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of West Virginia by : Nancy Capace
Download or read book Encyclopedia of West Virginia written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of West Virginia contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.
Book Synopsis Fighting King Coal by : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Download or read book Fighting King Coal written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the Case : Central Appalachia --Micro-Level Processes and Social Movement Participation -- The Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities -- Identity and Environmental Justice Movement Participation -- Cognitive Liberation and Coal Industry Ideology -- Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia -- Photovoice in Five Coalfield Communities -- Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist.