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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 |
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| 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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