Author: Rebecca R. Scott
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816665990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

Author: John Seely Hart
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: John S[eely] Hart
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372408540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Thomas GOYDER
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Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Lily Dougall
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Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Emma Garrett Allen
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512738743
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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Faith to Remove Mountains discuss some of the teachings that my mother taught me before her illness and death from Alzheimers disease in November of 1996. My purpose for writing this book was divinely inspired. While I was compiling bible scriptures to help my mother, I realized there were many people who also needed help, so my focus shifted from serving self to serving others. My book also include scriptures that helped me through my divorce from a 20 year marriage as well.

Author: Shirley Stewart Burns
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Author: John S. Hart
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Drew A. Swanson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.