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RONALD L. LEWIS
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's
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RONALD L. LEWIS
Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II chronicles the emergence of WVU as a major land-grant institution. As a continuation of the work of Doherty and Summers in West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionaliz
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KEN FONES-WOLF, RONALD L. LEWIS
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 w
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Ronald L. Lewis
In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immi
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Ronald L. Lewis
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored
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Ronald L. Lewis
America's emergence as a global industrial superpower was built on iron and steel, and despite their comparatively small numbers, no immigrant group played a more strategic role per capita in advancing basic industry than Welsh workers and managers.
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Ronald L. Lewis
Publikováno v:
Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315235936-13
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315235936-13
Autor:
Ronald L. Lewis
Publikováno v:
West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. 8:91-94