Author: Diana KittlemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780936015736
Category : Children's writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Index to Appalachian Coal Mining Memories
Author: Diana KittlemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780936015736
Category : Children's writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Appalachian Coal Mining Memories
Author: Mary B. LaLonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780936015668
Category : Children of coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mary B. La Lone and 18 student researchers interviewed more than sixty people to document life styles of coal miners in the New River Valley, where coal is no longer mined. Miners and their families were dedicated to making a good life together and creating a real sense of community between themselves and those around them, with coal never far from their minds. La Lone provides an ethnographic overview of mining culture and practices. Photographs and maps.
Coal Mining Lives
Author: Mary B. LaLonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes
Author: Carl E. ZipperPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030577805
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book collects and summarizes current scientific knowledge concerning coal-mined landscapes of the Appalachian region in eastern United States. Containing contributions from authors across disciplines, the book addresses topics relevant to the region’s coal-mining history and its future; its human communities; and the soils, waters, plants, wildlife, and human-use potentials of Appalachia’s coal-mined landscapes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of coal mining’s legacy in Appalachia, USA. It book describes the resources of the Appalachian coalfield, its lands and waters, and its human communities – as they have been left in the aftermath of intensive mining, drawing upon peer-reviewed science and other regional data to provide clear and objective descriptions. By understanding the Appalachian experience, officials and planners in other resource extraction- affected world regions can gain knowledge and perspectives that will aid their own efforts to plan and manage for environmental quality and for human welfare. Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes: Resources and Communities in a New Energy Era will be of use to natural resource managers and scientists within Appalachia and in other world regions experiencing widespread mining, researchers with interest in the region’s disturbance legacy, and economic and community planners concerned with Appalachia’s future.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2348
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
As We Were
Author: Coal Mining Review and Industrial Index
Author: Cumulated Index to the Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Coal Towns
Author: Crandall A. ShifflettPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870498855
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal towns from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. He finds that, compared to their earlier lives on subsistence farms, coal-town life was not all bad. Shifflett examines how this view, quite common among the oral histories of these working families, has been obscured by the middle-class biases of government studies and the Edenic myth of preindustrial Appalachia propagated by some historians. From their own point of view, mining families left behind a life of hard labor and drafty weatherboard homes. With little time for such celebrated arts as tale-telling and quilting, preindustrial mountain people strung more beans than dulcimers. In addition, the rural population was growing, and farmland was becoming scarce. What the families recall about the coal towns contradicts the popular image of mining life. Most miners did not owe their souls to the company store, and most mining companies were not unusually harsh taskmasters. Former miners and their families remember such company benefits as indoor plumbing, regular income, and leisure activities. They also recall the United Mine Workers of America as bringing not only pay raises and health benefits but work stoppages and violent confrontations. Far from being mere victims of historical forces, miners and their families shaped their own destiny by forging a new working-class culture out of the adaptation of their rural values to the demands of industrial life. This new culture had many continuities with the older one. Out of the closely knit social ties they brought from farming communities, mining families created their own safety net for times of economic downturn. Shifflett recognizes the dangers and hardships of coal-town life but also shows the resilience of Appalachian people in adapting their culture to a new environment. Crandall A. Shifflett is an associate professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Keokee, Virginia
Author: W. Eugene CoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9780989079303
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
community life, coal mining, education, early settlers, company store, religion, John Fox Jr., railroading, coke ovens, coal companies, African Americans, Southern Appalachian Mountains, and early settlers.