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Author : John G. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Governors
ISBN : OCLC:7787563
Author : Otis K. Rice,Stephen W. Brown
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813137667
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Author : Richard A. Brisbin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803262430
West Virginia Politics and Government offers the only recent study of politics in the Mountain State. Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state?s government, this second edition is a comprehensive and pointed study of the ability of the state?s government to respond to the needs of a largely rural and relatively low-income population. The authors discuss public demands on state government, the shaping of the political agenda by interest groups, elections and the role of political parties, and the influence of the federal government on the state?s political and administrative functions. The book also examines the nature of the state?s constitution and the role of governmental institutions, including the state legislature, the governor, and the state bureaucracy, in the making of public policy and the construction of a state budget, as well as the judiciary and local governments. The concluding chapter assesses the future of governance in the state.
Author : Margaret R. Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781851097760
This volume offers both historical and contemporary perspectives on the office of the governor, covering all 50 states and providing a comprehensive examination of the executive branch at the state level. One of three titles in ABC-CLIO's About State Government set, this work offers comprehensive coverage of contemporary American politics at the state level. It explores the critical roles played by the governorship and state-level bureaucracies—both in managing the state's business and as a component of the overall national system of government. Written by some of the nation's foremost authorities on state politics, The Executive Branch of State Government chronicles the evolution of the state-level executive apparatus from colonial times to the present, emphasizing its current importance on the local and national political stage. Chapters examine the structure and function of the governorship and state agencies, the people who serve as governor and in those agencies, and the multitude of forces that impact their work. A separate chapter examines the particular characteristics of executive branches state by state.
Author : Jerry Bruce Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813120640
The Depression had already begun in West Virginia before the stock market crash of November 1929 and lasted until the coming of war in 1941. In tracing the responses of the people and government of West Virginia during the Depression, historian Jerry Thomas not only deals with politics and institutions but also tells about ordinary people during the worst conditions in the state's history. 18 photos.
Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316224789
The gripping new history of the most famous blood feud in American history, by the bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara. For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story of this legendarily fierce-and far-reaching-clash in the heart of Appalachia. Drawing upon years of original research, including the discovery of previously lost and ignored documents and interviews with relatives of both families, bestselling author Dean King finally gives us the full, unvarnished tale, one vastly more enthralling than the myth. Unlike previous accounts, King's begins in the mid-nineteenth century, when the Hatfields and McCoys lived side-by-side in relative harmony. Theirs was a hardscrabble life of farming and hunting, timbering and moonshining-and raising large and boisterous families-in the rugged hollows and hills of Virginia and Kentucky. Cut off from much of the outside world, these descendants of Scots-Irish and English pioneers spoke a language many Americans would find hard to understand. Yet contrary to popular belief, the Hatfields and McCoys were established and influential landowners who had intermarried and worked together for decades. When the Civil War came, and the outside world crashed into their lives, family members were forced to choose sides. After the war, the lines that had been drawn remained-and the violence not only lived on but became personal. By the time the fury finally subsided, a dozen family members would be in the grave. The hostilities grew to be a national spectacle, and the cycle of killing, kidnapping, stalking by bounty hunters, and skirmishing between governors spawned a legal battle that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court and still influences us today. Filled with bitter quarrels, reckless affairs, treacherous betrayals, relentless mercenaries, and courageous detectives, THE FEUD is the riveting story of two frontier families struggling for survival within the narrow confines of an unforgiving land. It is a formative American tale, and in it, we see the reflection of our own family bonds and the lengths to which we might go in order to defend our honor, our loyalties, and our livelihood.
Author : Altina L. Waller
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0807842168
Recounts the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, examines the sociological implications of the conflict, and offers brief profiles of the main participants
Author : David Clay Large
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786748600
In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would allow his family to immigrate, despite wealth, education, and business and family connections. After repeated but fruitless efforts to gain entry first to the United States and then to Britain, Chile, and Brazil, Max died in Auschwitz and his wife and daughters were sent to hard labor in Wiesbaden. Much has been written about the West's unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis; now David Clay Large gives a human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. The youngest daughter of the Schohl family, today a seventy-four-year-old widow living in Charleston, South Carolina, has opened her family's records to Large: a unique collection of family letters and other documents chronicling the experiences of the Schohls and those who tried to bring them to England and America. From these papers Large has fashioned a gripping and intimate narrative of one family's efforts to escape the Holocaust in Europe and the inadequate response from abroad.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : West Virginia
ISBN : UVA:X002102761
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437122510460
Author : Ken Sullivan
Publisher : West Virginia Humanities
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123523180
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015031826301
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : Andrew M. Appleton,Daniel S. Ward
Publisher : CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038163815
State-by-state descriptions of the Democratic and Republican parties. Each state profile covers the history, organizational development, and current organization and activities of the two major state parties. In addition, each profile contains a resource guide to archival information and a list of references for further research on that state's parties. Details the unique characteristics of party politics in each state and identifies patterns across states, regions, and party organizations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Local government
ISBN : PSU:000064375038
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435058287061
