West Virginia University Press: 89 books
Cast in Deathless Bronze
Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after...
by VALERIE NIEMAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful—and dangerous—than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure...
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast
Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the development of one of America’s largest oil fields. Lloyd invested his petroleum earnings in commercial real estate—much of it centered around automobiles and the fuel they...
Hollow and Home
A History of Self and Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It also refers to the psychological,...
George Washington Written Upon the Land
Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.
In George Washington Written upon...
by Greg Bottoms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson’s observation during the civil rights era: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.”
Greg Bottoms...
Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods
Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The sixty-three fiction writers and poets within this anthology delve deep into the many senses of place that modern West Virginia, the core of Appalachia, inspires.
Throughout this collection, we see profound wonder, questioning, and conflicts involving family, sexual identity, class, discrimination,...
Jaws of Life
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the hills of north central West Virginia, there lives a cast of characters who face all manner of problems. From the people who are incarcerated in West Virginia’s prisons, to a woman who is learning how to lose her sight with grace, to another who sorely regrets selling her land to a fracking...
Ecologists and Environmental Politics
A History of Contemporary Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society. While some have argued that ecologists should participate in environmental politics, others have focused their attention strictly on scientific issues. In Ecologists and Environmental Politics, now updated with a new...
Appalachian Reckoning
A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Oil and Nation
A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center 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...
The Spark of Learning
Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The field of education, however, is beginning to awaken to the potential power of emotions to fuel learning,...