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Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains : Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes /

Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts,...

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Autor principal: Hsiung, David C., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1997]
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