Transnational West Virginina : ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 / edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis.
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TextSeries: West Virginia and Appalachia ; 1.Publisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781935978305
- 1935978306
- 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
- Ethnologie -- Virginie-Occidentale -- Histoire
- Virginie-Occidentale -- Relations interethniques
- Virginie-Occidentale -- Conditions économiques
- Virginie-Occidentale -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1950
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Economic history
- Ethnic relations
- Ethnology
- Immigrants
- Minorities
- West Virginia
- To 1950
- 975.4/0804 23
- F250.A1 T73 2011eb
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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.
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