Appalachia in the Making

by Pudup, Mary Beth; Billings, Dwight B.; Waller, Altina L.

• ISBN13: 9780807822296
• ISBN10: 0807822299
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in diverse sections of the Appalachian mountains. The contributors seek to place the study of Appalachia within the context of comparative regional studies of the United States, maintaining that processes and patterns thought to make the region exceptional were not necessarily unique to the mountain South. The contributors are Mary K. Anglin, Alan Banks, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Wilma A. Dunaway, John R. Finger, John C. Inscoe, Ronald L. Lewis, Ralph Mann, Gordon B. McKinney, Mary Beth Pudup, Paul Salstrom, Altina L. Waller, and John Alexander Williams

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction Taking Exception with Exceptionalism	p. 1
Notes	p. 18
Cherokee Accommodation and Persistence in the Southern Appalachians	p. 25
Notes	p. 44
Speculators and Settler Capitalists	p. 50
Notes	p. 68
Newer Appalachia as One of America's Last Frontiers	p. 76
Notes	p. 96
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Southern Appalachia	p. 103
Notes	p. 123
Diversity in the Antebellum Appalachian South Four Farm Communities in Tazewell County, Virginia	p. 132
Notes	p. 157
Economy and Community in Western North Carolina, 1860-1865	p. 163
Notes	p. 178
Lives on the Margin Rediscovering the Women of Antebellum Western North Carolina	p. 185
Notes	p. 200
Class, Section, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century West Virginia Politics	p. 210
Notes	p. 229
Agriculture and Poverty in the Kentucky Mountains	p. 233
Notes	p. 263
Town and Country in the Transformation of Appalachian Kentucky	p. 270
Notes	p. 293
Railroads, Deforestation, and the Transformation of Agriculture in the West Virginia Back Counties, 1880-1920	p. 297
Notes	p. 316
Class Formation in the Southeastern Kentucky Coalfields, 1890-1920	p. 321
Notes	p. 343
Feuding in Appalachia Evolution of a Cultural Stereotype	p. 347
Notes	p. 370
Index	p. 381
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