Appalachia A History

Name: Appalachia A History
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ISBN: 9780807853689

ISBN-10: 0807853682

ISBN-13: 9780807853689

Edition: 2002

Authors: John Alexander Williams

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Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Illustrations


Maps and Tables


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Appalachia


Introduction Ghosts, Boundaries, and Names



The Roads to Qualla, 1540-1840



In the Ocean of Mountains, 1790-1870



Blood and Legends, 1860-1920



Standing the Times, 1880-1940



Crisis and Renewal, 1930-2000


Notes


Bibliography


Index