Road to Poverty The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

Name: Road to Poverty The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
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ISBN: 9780521655460

ISBN-10: 0521655463

ISBN-13: 9780521655460

Edition: 2000

Authors: Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee

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In this work, the authors examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially poor section of the eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia.

Book details

List price: $55.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 452
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Kathleen M. Blee is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of No Middle Ground , also available from NYU Press.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface and Acknowledgments



Public Policy and Historical Sociology



Introduction



Antebellum Capitalist Markets



Frontier Kentucky in the Capitalist World System



Industry, Commerce, and Slaveholding



Antebellum State Coercion



State Making and the Origins of Elite Conflict


Photo Essay



Cultural Strategies



The Patriarchal Moral Economy of Agriculture



Racial Dynamics and the Creation of Poverty



Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State



From Marginality to Integration



Feud Violence




Epilogue



Data and Methodology



Genealogies


Notes


Index