1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963456203321

Autore

Hunt Andrew E. <1968->

Titolo

David Dellinger : the life and times of a nonviolent revolutionary / / Andrew E. Hunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780814790830

0814790836

9780814737293

0814737293

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

959.704/31092

B

Soggetti

Radicals - United States

Political activists - United States

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements

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. 323-332) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955193603321

Autore

Fones-Wolf Ken

Titolo

Transnational West Virginia : ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 / / edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Morgantown, : West Virginia University Press, 2003, c2002

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 325 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

West Virginia and Appalachia ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

Fones-WolfKen

LewisRonald L. <1940->

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.