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West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.

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The Industrialist and the Mountaineer

The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Ecologists and Environmental Politics

A History of Contemporary Ecology

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Monsters in Appalachia: Stories

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Believe What You Can: Poems

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Steam and Diesel Era in Wheeling, West Virginia

Photographs by J. J. Young Jr.

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Ecological Governance

Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Bede and Aethelthryth

An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Rope Swing: Stories

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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My Radio Radio

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Algerian Diary

Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News

By Gerald Davis; Foreword by Tom Fenton
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Night I Freed John Brown

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Folk-Songs of the South

Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society

Edited by John Harrington Cox; Introduction by Alan Jabbour
West Virginia University Press

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is 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, from English and Scottish ballads to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the American West, boat and railroad transportation, children’s play-party and dance music, and songs from African American singers, including post-Civil war popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. With a new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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