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High mountains rising : Appalachia in time and place

Richard Alan Straw (Editor), Tyler Blethen (Editor)
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, modernization. The remaining essays take a more cultural focus, addressing stereotypes, music, folklife, language, literature, and religion
Print Book, English, 2004
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2004
History
vi, 240 pages ; 24 cm
9780252029165, 9780252071768, 025202916X, 025207176X
53020340
Native Americans / C. Clifford Boyd Jr
Pioneer settlement / H. Tyler Blethen
Slavery and African Americans in the nineteenth century / John C. Inscoe
The Civil War and Reconstruction / Gordon B. McKinney
Industrialization / Ronald L. Lewis
The Great Depression / Paul Salstrom
Migration / Philip J. Obermiller
Stereotypes / David C. Hsiung
Music / Bill C. Malone
Folklife / Michael Ann Williams
Language / Michael Montgomery
Literature / Ted Olson
Religion / Deborah Vansau McCauley
Modernization, 1940-2000 / Ronald D. Eller