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

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Ken Fones-Wolf is a professor of history at West Virginia University. He is coeditor of Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940 and author or editor of three other books.

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"Fones-Wolf blends histories of labor, immigration, politics, business, and technology with skill to produce a finely detailed and compelling portrait of an economic transformation that although ultimately unsuccessful nevertheless left the people and places involved much changed. Moreover, for all its localness, Glass Towers takes a transnational perspective that links European craft practices, shifts in global demand for glass products, technological innovations, and the subsequent local political consequences to offer a cautionary tale relevant to the promise and peril of our own contemporary faith in development." Jarod Roll, University of Sussex

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