Books published by West Virginia University Press

Collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark Smith, this volume introduces to students and to historians of all fields the richness, relevance, and insightfulness of the olfactory to historical study.

Offers the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia - roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite ""regular"" America and yet not quite Appalachia.

Collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark Smith, this volume introduces to students and to historians of all fields the richness, relevance, and insightfulness of the olfactory to historical study.

Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011.

In this novel for young adults, Josh knows there is something about the tall Victorian House on the Harpers Ferry Hill, the one his father grew up in, that he can't quite put his finger on. And his impossible father won't give him any clues. He's hiding something. The historic village of Harpers Ferry comes alive in this young boy's brave search for answers and a place of his own.

The Rebel in the Red Jeep follows the personal and professional experiences of Ken Hechler, the oldest living person to have served in the US Congress, from his childhood until his marriage at 98 years of age. This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler's introduction of innovative teaching methods at major universities, to his work as a speechwriter and researcher for President Harry Truman, and finally to his time representing West Virginia in the US House of Representatives and as the secretary of state. In West Virginia, where he resisted mainstream political ideology, Hechler was the principal architect behind the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 and constantly battled big coal, strip-mining, and fellow politicians alike. He and his signature red jeep remain a fixture in West Virginia. Since 2004, Hechler has campaigned against mountaintop removal mining. He was arrested for trespassing during a protest in 2009 at the age of 94.

A collection of intense stories about the experience of loss. Dark, strange beauties, all of the stories in The Whole World at Once follow the lives of people grappling with what it means to live in a world with death.

Explores and examines what happens to writing as it takes place on and through the networked computer. Alan Sondheim began experimenting with artistic and philosophical writing using computers in the early 1970s. Since 1994, he has explored the possibilities of writing on the Internet. Writing Under selects from this work to provide insight into how writing takes place today.

Places petroleum at the centre of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952.

Takes stock of the field of Appalachian studies as it explores issues still at the centre of its scholarship: culture, industrialization, the labour movement, and twentieth-century economic and political failure and their social impact. A new generation of scholars continues the work of Appalachian studies' pioneers, exploring the diversity and complexity of the region and its people.

J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post-Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organisations, and tireless work serving the needs of those abandoned by the political process of the white world.

As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change.

In the early nineteenth century, a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebellum United States. In his illuminating study, now available with a new preface by the author, John Stealey examines the legal basis of this industry, its labour practices, and its marketing and distribution patterns.

This collection of poetry by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman explores the difficulty of living with an awareness of the eventual death of all living things. Each of its four sections suggests a coping mechanism for this inevitable predicament, from storytelling, to accepting darkness and death as a creative force, to enjoying disruption and chaos, and finally to embracing the mystery of life as the most triumphant story of all. These difficulties come "not quite haphazardly" and not without a "last light"--something "beyond" and as "sweet as apples." With these moments of grace, Harshman taps into the satisfying richness that comes from unexpected revelations, helping us rise above the fragile recesses of life and death, all while portraying the lost rural worlds of the Midwest and Appalachia in ways untouched by sentiment or nostalgia.

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.

Asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn to Aethelthryth.

Provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen.

This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph's writings give us a window into a different experience of slavery and freedom than other narratives currently available.

Provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in the late eighteenth century continuing up to the "Matewan Massacre". It covers the relevant economic history, including the development of the coal mine industry and the struggles over land ownership; labour history; transportation history; political history; and the impact of the state's governors and legislatures on Mingo County.

Presents a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources. Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection archives a range of styles and genres.

Examines the rise and fall of organised socialism in West Virginia through an exploration of the demographics of membership, oral interview material gathered in the 1960s from party members, and the collapse of the party in 1912. Ths volume offers insight into the internal and external forces that doomed the party and serves as a cautionary tale to contemporary political leaders and organisers.

A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing the engineering and construction aspects of river navigation.

Enables faculty to create and implement effective assessment methodologies - research based and field tested - in traditional and online classrooms. In doing so, the book reveals how the daunting challenges of grading in the arts can be turned into opportunities for deeper student learning, increased student engagement, and an enlivened pedagogy.

Walter F. White joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 and became its head in 1929, a position he maintained until his death in 1955. In this comprehensive biography, Zangrando and Lewis seek to provide a reassessment of White within the context of his own time, revising critical interpretations of his career.

Includes resources for readers who want to become Universal Design for Learning (UDL) experts and advocates: case studies, active-learning techniques, UDL coaching skills, micro- and macro-level UDL-adoption guidance, and use-them-now resources. It is is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students.

The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbours, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia. They could be your neighbours - average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses. Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives.