High Mountains Rising : Appalachia in Place and Time
ISBN: 9780252071768 | 025207176X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Pub. Date: 5/6/2004
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This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen's High Mountains Rising provides a clear, systematic, and engaging overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and the most significant aspects of life in the region. The first half of the fourteen essays deal with historical issues including Native Americans, pioneer settlement, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, the Great Depression, migration, and finally, modernizat... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Native Americans | p. 7 |
| Pioneer Settlement | p. 17 |
| Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century | p. 30 |
| The Civil War and Reconstruction | p. 46 |
| Industrialization | p. 59 |
| The Great Depression | p. 74 |
| Migration | p. 88 |
| Stereotypes | p. 101 |
| Music | ... MOREp. 114 |
| Folklife | p. 135 |
| English Language | p. 147 |
| Literature | p. 165 |
| Religion | p. 179 |
| Modernization, 1940-2000 | p. 197 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 221 |
| Contributors | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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