The Industrialist and the Mountaineer: The Eastham-Thompson Fued and the Struggle for West Virginia`s Timber Frontier, Ronald L. Lewis

Автор: Lewis Ronald L.
Название: The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
ISBN: 1943665516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943665518
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Описание: In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the new business elite who was, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second half of the nineteenth century: the often violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-called “wars of incorporation,” Lewis’s powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Although the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers eventually won the war for control of the state’s timber frontier.

Автор: Tribe Ivan M., Bapst Jacob L.
Название: West Virginia`s Traditional Country Music
ISBN: 1531674313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531674311
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