Appalachia's Path to Dependency : Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940

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The debate over the source of Appalachia's economic problems has been going strong since Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands appeared in 1963. Now a new study illuminates the region's plight, making a vital contribution to the understanding of this area's critical econ...

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Autor principal: Salstrom, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Poor.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Pauvres > Appalaches (Sud) > Histoire.
Poor > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Appalaches (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Appalaches (Sud) > Conditions economiques.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figure; Preface; Introduction: The Issue; 1. Early Settlement and Self-Sufficiency, 1730-1860; 2. Accelerated Agricultural Decline and Adverse Federal Policy, 1860-1880; 3. Rural Appalachia's Subsistence-Barter-and-Borrow Systems; 4. Labor-intensive Mining and the Subsistence Reproduction of Labor Power, 1880-1930; 5. The New Deal and Appalachia's Industry; 6. The New Deal and Appalachia's Agriculture; 7. The Welfare of Rural Appalachia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y.

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