Bøker av Ken Fones-Wolf

West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states. But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labours, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal miners.

Exploring a path not taken in Appalachian economic development--one that might have led away from underdevelopment