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Title Transnational West Virginina : ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 / edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series West Virginia and Appalachia ; 1
West Virginia and Appalachia ; 1.
Note "Corrected reprint"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Minorities -- West Virginia -- History.
Minorities.
West Virginia.
History.
Immigrants -- West Virginia -- History.
Immigrants.
Ethnology -- West Virginia -- History.
Ethnology.
West Virginia -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
West Virginia -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
West Virginia -- History -- To 1950.
Chronological Term To 1950
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Fones-Wolf, Ken, editor.
Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Fones-Wolf, Ken Transnational West Virginia : Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940 Morgantown : West Virginia University Press,c2004 9780937058763
ISBN 9781935978305 electronic book
1935978306 electronic book
9780937058671ΓΌ9780937058763