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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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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (LOUIS C. MARTIN AND Ken FONES-WOLF, page vii)
  • 1 Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways (DWIGHT B. BILLINGS, page 1)
  • Section I: Culture
    • 'Scrip Was a Way of Life': Company Stores, Jewish Merchants, and the Coalfield Retail Economy (DEBORAH WEINER, page 31)
    • A Combat Scenario: Early Coal Mining and the Culture of Danger (PAUL RAKES, page 56)
    • Radical Challenge and Conservative Triumph: The Struggle to Define American Identity in the Somerset County Coal Strike, 1922-1923 (JENNIFER EGOLF, page 88)
    • Separate But Never Equal: Dewey W. Fox and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Age of Jim Crow (CONNIE PARK RICE, page 118)
  • Section II: Class
    • 'Sadly in need of organization': Labor Relations in the Fairmont Field, 1890 to 1918 (MICHAEL E. WORKMAN, page 141)
    • The Matewan Massacre: Before and After (REBECCA BAILEY, page 166)
    • Progress and Persistent Problems: Sixty Years of Health Care in Appalachia (RICHARD P. MULCAHY, page 204)
    • 1199 Comes to Appalachia: Beginnings, 1970-1976 (JOHN HENNEN, page 224)
  • Section III: Politics
    • Mining Reform after Monongah: The Conservative Response to Mine Disasters (JEFFERY B. COOK, page 253)
    • Depression, Recovery, Instability: The NRA and the McDowell County, West Virginia Coal Industry, 1920-1938 (MARK MYERS, page 283)
    • To Dance with the Devil: The Social Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining (SHIRLEY STEWART BURNS, page 305)
  • PUBLICATIONS (RONALD L. LEWIS, page 329)
  • CONTRIBUTORS (page 335)
  • INDEX (page 339)
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Published: c2009
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781933202396 (paper)
  • 9781935978145 (ebook)
  • 9781933202402 (hardcover)
Series
  • West Virginia and Appalachia
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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