1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385557203316

Autore

Rider Cardanus

Titolo

Riders 1660 Brittish Merlin [[electronic resource] ] : bedeckt with many delightful varieties, and useful verities, fitting the longitude and latitude of all capacities within the islands of Great Britains monarchy, and chronologicall observations of principal note to this year 1660 :  with notes of husbandry, physick, faires and marts, directions and tables to all necessary uses : being leap-year / / made and compiled for the benefit of his countrey by Schardanus Riders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by R. & W. Leybeurn for the Company of Stationers, [1660]

Descrizione fisica

[66] p. : ill

Soggetti

Almanacs, English

Ephemerides

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Manuscript notes on p. [45].

Numerous blanks pages between p. [14-53].

Imperfect: pages creased, cropped and faded with some loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959217203321

Autore

Wagner Thomas E

Titolo

African American miners and migrants : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club / / Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004

ISBN

9786613921604

9781283609159

1283609150

9780252092732

0252092732

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObermillerPhillip J

Disciplina

305.896/0730769154

Soggetti

African Americans - Societies, etc

African Americans

African American coal miners - Kentucky - Social life and customs

Mining camps - Kentucky - History

Rural-urban migration - United States

Mountain life - Kentucky

Kentucky Social life and customs

Benham (Ky.) Biography

Lynch (Ky.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. ""Coming Up on the Rough Side of the Mountain"": African Americans and Coal Camps in Appalachia""; ""2. ""Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair"": African Americans in Coal Towns""; ""3. ""I Don't Know Where To, but We're Moving"": African American Survival Strategies in Coal Towns""; ""4. ""Sing a Song of 'Welfare'"": Corporate Communities and Welfare Capitalism in Southeastern Kentucky""; ""5. ""Living Tolerably Well Together"": Life in Model Towns along Looney Creek""



""6. ""What Kept You Standing, Why Didn't You Fall?"": African Americans in Benham and Lynch""""7. ""One Close Community"": The Eastern Kentucky Social Club""; ""8. ""They Love Coming Home"": Appalachian Ties That Bind""; ""Afterword: Values, Spoken and Unspoken""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County.   Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.