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Appalachia in the making : the mountain South in the nineteenth century

Author: Mary Beth Pudup; Dwight B Billings; Altina L Waller
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Appalachia in the making.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995
(OCoLC)604662401
Online version:
Appalachia in the making.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995
(OCoLC)608163559
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Beth Pudup; Dwight B Billings; Altina L Waller
ISBN: 0807822299 9780807822296 0807845345 9780807845349
OCLC Number: 31938351
Description: viii, 391 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Taking exception with exceptionalism: the emergence and transformation of historical studies of Appalachia / Dwight B. Billings, Mary Beth Pudup, Altina L. Waller --
Cherokee accommodation and persistence in the Southern Appalachians / John R. Finger --
Speculators and settler capitalists: unthinking the mythology about Appalachian landholding, 1790-1860 / Wilma A. Dunaway --
Newer Appalachia as one of America's last frontiers / Paul Salstrom --
Race and racism in the nineteenth-century Southern Appalachia: myths, realities, and ambiguities / John C. Inscoe --
Diversity in the antebellum Appalachian South: four farm communities in Tazewell County, Virginia / Ralph Mann --
Economy and community in western North Carolina, 1860-1865 / Gordon B. McKinney --
Lives on the margin: rediscovering the women of antebellum western North Carolina / Mary K. Anglin --
Class, section, and culture in nineteenth-century West Virginia politics / John Alexander Williams --
Agriculture and poverty in the Kentucky mountains: Beech Creek, 1850-1910 / Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee --
Town and country in the transformation of Appalachian Kentucky / Mary Beth Pudup --
Railroads, deforestation, and the transformation of agriculture in the West Virginia back counties, 1880-1920 / Ronald L. Lewis --
Class formation in the southeastern coalfields, 1890-1920 / Alan Banks --
Feuding of Appalachia: evolution of a cultural stereotype / Altina L. Waller.
Responsibility: edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings and Altina L. Waller.

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