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The Industrialist and the Mountaineer : The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier /
"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 episod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Industrialist and the Mountaineer : |b The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier / |c Ronald L. Lewis. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Thompson, Frank, |d -1897 |x Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Eastham, Robert |x Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 650 | 7 | |a NATURE / Natural Resources. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. |2 bisacsh | |
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