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UNINA9910963456203321 |
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Autore |
Hunt Andrew E. <1968-> |
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Titolo |
David Dellinger : the life and times of a nonviolent revolutionary / / Andrew E. Hunt |
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New York, : New York University Press, 2006 |
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9780814790830 |
0814790836 |
9780814737293 |
0814737293 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Radicals - United States |
Political activists - United States |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wakefield; 2 The Education of a Pacifist; 3 The Hole; 4 "Conchies"; 5 A Rebel in Cold-War America; 6 Winds of Change; 7 The Birth of a Movement; 8 Gandhi and Guerrilla; 9 The Road to Chicago; 10 Disrupting the Holy Mysteries; 11 Staying the Course; 12 Making Peace in Vermont; 13 Farewell, Tough Guy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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The year was 1969. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. Dellinger, a long-time but relatively unknown activist, was suddenly, at fifty-three, catapulted into the limelight for his part in this intense courtroom drama. From obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, David Dellinger is the first full biography of a man who bridged the gap between the Old Left and the New Left. Born in 1915 in the upscale Boston suburb of Wakefield to privilege, Dellinger attended Yale during the Depression, |
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UNINA9910955193603321 |
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Autore |
Fones-Wolf Ken |
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Transnational West Virginia : ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 / / edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Morgantown, : West Virginia University Press, 2003, c2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xviii, 325 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
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West Virginia and Appalachia ; ; 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Fones-WolfKen |
LewisRonald L. <1940-> |
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Minorities - West Virginia - History |
Immigrants - West Virginia - History |
Ethnology - West Virginia - History |
West Virginia Ethnic relations |
West Virginia Economic conditions |
West Virginia History To 1950 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Networks Large and Small -- Section I: Antebellum Roots -- 1. Matthew Mason, "Paddy vs. Paddy: Labor Unrestand Provincial Identities along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1849-1851" -- 2. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Caught between Revolutions: Wheeling Germans in the Civil War Era" -- Section II: Niche Communities -- 3. Elizabeth Cometti, "Swiss Immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A Case Study" -- 4. Deborah R. Weiner, "From Shtetl to Coalfield: The Migration of East European Jews to Southern West Virginia" -- 5. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Craft, Ethnicity, and Identity: Belgian Glassworkers in West Virginia, 1898-1940" -- Section III: Immigrant Coal Miners -- 6. Joe William Trotter Jr., "Black Migration to Southern West Virginia" -- 7. Frederick A. Barkey, " 'Here Come the Boomer 'Talys': Italian Immigrants and Industrial Conflict in the Upper Kanawha Valley, 1903-1917" -- 8. William B. Klaus, "Uneven Americanization: Italian Immigration to Marion County, 1900-1925" -- Section IV: Representations of Ethnic Work Communities -- 9. Anne Kelly Knowles, "Wheeling Iron and the Welsh: A Geographical Reading of |
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Life in the Iron Mills" -- 10. Kenneth R. Bailey, "Strange Tongues: West Virginia and Immigrant Labor to 1920" -- 11. Ronald L. Lewis, "Americanizing Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern West Virginia: Monongalia County between the World Wars" -- Epilogue: Leaving West Virginia -- 12. Susan Johnson, "West Virginia Rubber Workers in Akron" -- About the Contributors -- Index. |
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West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states.But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labors, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal. |
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