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Culture, class and politics in modern Appalachia: essays in honor of Ronald L. Lewis
Ronald L. Lewis, Jennifer Egolf, Ken Fones-Wolf and Louis C. Martin
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Frontmatter
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Preface (LOUIS C. MARTIN AND Ken FONES-WOLF, page vii)
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1 Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways (DWIGHT B. BILLINGS, page 1)
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Section I: Culture
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'Scrip Was a Way of Life': Company Stores, Jewish Merchants, and the Coalfield Retail Economy (DEBORAH WEINER, page 31)
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A Combat Scenario: Early Coal Mining and the Culture of Danger (PAUL RAKES, page 56)
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Radical Challenge and Conservative Triumph: The Struggle to Define American Identity in the Somerset County Coal Strike, 1922-1923 (JENNIFER EGOLF, page 88)
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Separate But Never Equal: Dewey W. Fox and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Age of Jim Crow (CONNIE PARK RICE, page 118)
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Section II: Class
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'Sadly in need of organization': Labor Relations in the Fairmont Field, 1890 to 1918 (MICHAEL E. WORKMAN, page 141)
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The Matewan Massacre: Before and After (REBECCA BAILEY, page 166)
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Progress and Persistent Problems: Sixty Years of Health Care in Appalachia (RICHARD P. MULCAHY, page 204)
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1199 Comes to Appalachia: Beginnings, 1970-1976 (JOHN HENNEN, page 224)
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Section III: Politics
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Mining Reform after Monongah: The Conservative Response to Mine Disasters (JEFFERY B. COOK, page 253)
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Depression, Recovery, Instability: The NRA and the McDowell County, West Virginia Coal Industry, 1920-1938 (MARK MYERS, page 283)
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To Dance with the Devil: The Social Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining (SHIRLEY STEWART BURNS, page 305)
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PUBLICATIONS (RONALD L. LEWIS, page 329)
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CONTRIBUTORS (page 335)
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INDEX (page 339)
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Published: c2009
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
- 9781933202396 (paper)
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