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An Appalachian reawakening [[electronic resource] ] : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas
| An Appalachian reawakening [[electronic resource] ] : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas |
| Autore | Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 470 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Collana | West Virginia and Appalachia |
| Soggetto topico | Social change - West Virginia - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-933202-59-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462764203321 |
Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941->
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| Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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An Appalachian reawakening [[electronic resource] ] : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas
| An Appalachian reawakening [[electronic resource] ] : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas |
| Autore | Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 470 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Collana | West Virginia and Appalachia |
| Soggetto topico | Social change - West Virginia - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 1-933202-59-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786209103321 |
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Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941->
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| Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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An Appalachian reawakening : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas
| An Appalachian reawakening : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas |
| Autore | Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 470 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Collana | West Virginia and Appalachia |
| Soggetto topico | Social change - West Virginia - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 1-933202-59-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- West Virginia and Appalachia Series Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Machine Age in the Hills -- Appalachian Contradiction -- A Revolution in Coal -- The UMWA Embraces the Revolution -- The Fade of the Mountain Farm -- A General Economic Decline -- West Virginians and the Mass Culture of the Age -- The Great Migration: Leaving "Those Hills, the Place I Call Home" -- Conclusion -- American Paradox, Appalachian Stereotype -- The Alienation of the Land -- Horse-and-Buggy Vestiges -- The Patteson Era -- McCarthyism: The Second Red Scare -- "Like a Bolt of Lightning": Marland's Severance Tax Proposal -- Hard Times and the Search for Panaceas -- Marland: Flawed Champion of Change -- The Emergence of Cecil Underwood -- The Challenges of Education in the Age of Sputnik -- A Changing of the Guard -- A Deteriorating Economy and Agonizing Reappraisals -- "An American Paradox": Imperfections in the Glare of National Attention -- Planning for Regional Action -- Affection in Adversity -- Conclusion -- Civil Rights in the New Machine Age -- African Americans in West Virginia: Balancing Two Segregationist Parties -- Jim Crow and the Impact of the Revolution in Coal -- Desegregating the Schools: The Impact of Brown -- A Rehearsal for Desegregation -- Persistent Segregation -- Integrating Higher Education -- Integrating the Broader Society: A Grassroots Awakening -- Churches and Civil Rights -- Conclusion -- Good Intentions: The New Frontier and the War on Poverty -- Structural Unemployment, Automation, and the Culture of Poverty -- The View from Megalopolis -- A "Robber Barron" of the New Frontier -- The Centennial: Accentuating the Positive -- LBJ and the War on Poverty -- Hulett C. Smith's Sin of Omission -- Challenges of "Creative Federalism" -- Disappointments of the Crash Program.
From Head Start to VISTA -- Charleston as Prototype: Community Action and "Maximum Feasible Participation" -- Hardy and McDowell: Appalachian Models for the War on Poverty -- Reaction in West Virginia -- Guns Over Butter: OEO in Retreat -- Reorganizing the State OEO -- "Rethinking OEO's Approach": Assessing McDowell and Kanawha -- The ARC: A Lost Opportunity? -- Conclusion -- Raising Hell in the Hillsand Hollows: AVs, VISTAs, and Community Action -- Huey Perry and the Mingo Model for "Maximum Feasible Participation" -- The Rise of the Appalachian Volunteers -- AVs in West Virginia: "Outsiders and Trouble Makers" or "the Best Hope for Change"? -- Rising Militancy in Appalachia -- AVs Under Attack -- Governor Smith Closes Ranks with the Critics -- Assessing AVs and VISTAs -- West Virginia's War on Poverty in Retrospect -- From the Silver Bridge to Farmington and Rumblings at the Grassroots -- Prelude: The Silver Bridge -- A Shaken Political Structure -- The Fair Elections Movement -- The King and Kennedy Assassinations -- A Long Hot Summer -- "The Lord Voted for Us": The 1968 Election -- Campus Activism -- John L.'s Broken Dream -- "78-4": Hominy Falls and Farmington -- Black Lung: "The Road to a Dusty Death" -- Organizing the Black Lung Coalition -- Conclusion -- An Appalachian Reawakening: The Black Lung Association, Miners for Democracy, and the New Feminism -- "How Not to Do It": The Waning of the Poverty War -- "A Divine Right to Breathe": The Miners' Revolt of 1969 -- "I Want You All to Keep the Fight Up": Murder and Reform in the UMWA -- West Virginia Women and the New Feminism -- Arch Moore: "An Egocentric Style of Government" -- Conclusion -- The Strip Mining Dilemma and a Climactic Debate -- Early Strip Mining -- Strip Mining's Economic Advantages and Environmental Challenges -- State Regulatory Efforts -- The Battle to Abolish Strip Mining. The Fight for a Federal Ban -- The Stanford Report: Environmental Devastation or Economic Disaster -- The Election of 1972: A Strip-Mining Referendum? -- Conclusion -- Buffalo Creek: Appalachian Apotheosis -- Gob Piles and the Environment -- The Dams of Buffalo Creek Hollow -- The Dam Break -- The Aftermath: A Familiar Script -- An Act of God? -- Kai Erikson and the Persisting Stereotype -- Preventing Another Buffalo Creek? -- Epilogue: Another Reawakening? -- Notes -- Introduction -- A New Machine Age in the Hills -- American Paradox, Appalachian Stereotype -- Civil Rights in the New Machine Age -- Good Intentions -- Raising Hell in the Hills and Hollows -- From the Silver Bridge to Farmington -- An Appalachian Reawakening -- The Strip Mining Dilemma and a Climactic Debate -- Buffalo Creek -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Oral History -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Printed Documents, Government Publications -- Books -- Articles, Lectures -- Unpublished Dissertations and Theses -- Electronic Sources -- Sound Recordings -- Video Recordings -- Index -- Back Cover. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910969586103321 |
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Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941->
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| Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska
| Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska |
| Autore | Pleska Cat <1953-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Soggetto topico |
Appalachians (People) - West Virginia
Only child Working class families - West Virginia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-940425-53-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | IMAGES... -- No Salt -- Trick or Treat -- A Tone -- Give Me My Hat -- Big Earl's -- A Brush with the Law -- In Mommaw's Kitchen -- AWAKENING... -- What We Called Home -- From a Time Before -- Night Light -- Cicada Buzz -- AWARENESS... -- I Spy -- Shelter -- Back Home -- Devil Faces -- Something Gathers 'Round Me -- House of Leaves -- Plunder -- REACTION... -- Alarm Clock -- My Civic Duty -- The Nervous Hospital -- My Kingdom for a Horse -- Night on Cheat Mountain I -- Night on Cheat Mountain II -- CarniVAL -- War -- The Sailor man -- LOSS... -- In the Cellar -- Reckoning -- Exception to the Rule -- Charmed -- I've Drawed up a Mite -- 900 Degrees Celsius -- Twin Haloes -- The Phone Rings -- Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? -- We Shall Gather -- Riding on Comets -- Night on Cheat Mountain III -- Fall -- STRENGTH... -- Liminal -- Dragon's Tale -- Epilogue -- Author Bio -- Book Discussion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460378003321 |
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Pleska Cat <1953->
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| Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska
| Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska |
| Autore | Pleska Cat <1953-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Soggetto topico |
Appalachians (People) - West Virginia
Only child Working class families - West Virginia |
| ISBN |
1-940425-52-2
1-940425-53-0 |
| Classificazione | BIO007000BIO022000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | IMAGES... -- No Salt -- Trick or Treat -- A Tone -- Give Me My Hat -- Big Earl's -- A Brush with the Law -- In Mommaw's Kitchen -- AWAKENING... -- What We Called Home -- From a Time Before -- Night Light -- Cicada Buzz -- AWARENESS... -- I Spy -- Shelter -- Back Home -- Devil Faces -- Something Gathers 'Round Me -- House of Leaves -- Plunder -- REACTION... -- Alarm Clock -- My Civic Duty -- The Nervous Hospital -- My Kingdom for a Horse -- Night on Cheat Mountain I -- Night on Cheat Mountain II -- CarniVAL -- War -- The Sailor man -- LOSS... -- In the Cellar -- Reckoning -- Exception to the Rule -- Charmed -- I've Drawed up a Mite -- 900 Degrees Celsius -- Twin Haloes -- The Phone Rings -- Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? -- We Shall Gather -- Riding on Comets -- Night on Cheat Mountain III -- Fall -- STRENGTH... -- Liminal -- Dragon's Tale -- Epilogue -- Author Bio -- Book Discussion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797167603321 |
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Pleska Cat <1953->
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| Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska
| Riding on comets : a memoir / / Cat Pleska |
| Autore | Pleska Cat <1953-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 975.4/043 |
| Soggetto topico |
Appalachians (People) - West Virginia
Only child Working class families - West Virginia |
| ISBN |
1-940425-52-2
1-940425-53-0 |
| Classificazione | BIO007000BIO022000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | IMAGES... -- No Salt -- Trick or Treat -- A Tone -- Give Me My Hat -- Big Earl's -- A Brush with the Law -- In Mommaw's Kitchen -- AWAKENING... -- What We Called Home -- From a Time Before -- Night Light -- Cicada Buzz -- AWARENESS... -- I Spy -- Shelter -- Back Home -- Devil Faces -- Something Gathers 'Round Me -- House of Leaves -- Plunder -- REACTION... -- Alarm Clock -- My Civic Duty -- The Nervous Hospital -- My Kingdom for a Horse -- Night on Cheat Mountain I -- Night on Cheat Mountain II -- CarniVAL -- War -- The Sailor man -- LOSS... -- In the Cellar -- Reckoning -- Exception to the Rule -- Charmed -- I've Drawed up a Mite -- 900 Degrees Celsius -- Twin Haloes -- The Phone Rings -- Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? -- We Shall Gather -- Riding on Comets -- Night on Cheat Mountain III -- Fall -- STRENGTH... -- Liminal -- Dragon's Tale -- Epilogue -- Author Bio -- Book Discussion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812353703321 |
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Pleska Cat <1953->
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| Morgantown : , : Vandalia Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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