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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
National Coal Heritage Area Management Action Plan
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ball, Bat and Bitumen
Author: L.M. Sutter
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786452668
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
They emerged from the mines, shook off the coal dust, and stepped onto the diamond. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, baseball games between mine workers were a small-town phenomenon, each team attracting avid and intensely loyal fans. Talented part-time athletes competed at the amateur, semi-pro and professional levels. Equally competitive were the coal company officials, who often brought in ringers, or players of exceptional ability, giving them easier jobs above ground or a padded pay packet. Based on interviews with surviving players, families of deceased players, and contemporary sources, this thoroughgoing history covers not only teams and leagues but their function within the mining communities of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. The book features a special section on African-American mining teams, a coalfield map and many photographs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786452668
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
They emerged from the mines, shook off the coal dust, and stepped onto the diamond. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, baseball games between mine workers were a small-town phenomenon, each team attracting avid and intensely loyal fans. Talented part-time athletes competed at the amateur, semi-pro and professional levels. Equally competitive were the coal company officials, who often brought in ringers, or players of exceptional ability, giving them easier jobs above ground or a padded pay packet. Based on interviews with surviving players, families of deceased players, and contemporary sources, this thoroughgoing history covers not only teams and leagues but their function within the mining communities of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. The book features a special section on African-American mining teams, a coalfield map and many photographs.
King Coal
Author: Stan Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891852060
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891852060
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Coalfields Expressway, McDowell, Wyoming and Raleigh Counties
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Historic Inns of Southern West Virginia
Author: Ed Robinson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Covers locations in Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming Counties.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Covers locations in Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming Counties.
A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley
Author: George D. Torok
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332829
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332829
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.
Establishment of Miscellaneous Heritage Areas
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
Author: Andy Croll
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351878530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351878530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.
Removing Mountains
Author: Rebecca R. Scott
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816665990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816665990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Author: Herman Gray
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816655979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816655979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning.