The United States of Appalachia
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Jeff Biggers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-10 - Publisher: Catapult

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Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Ste
The First American Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Wilma A. Dunaway
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Draw
Appalachia
Language: en
Pages: 494
Authors: John Alexander Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-03 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian pa
Appalachia on Our Mind
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Henry D. Shapiro
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-30 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this i
A History of Appalachia
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Richard B. Drake
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care,