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

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ISBN-10: 0813108683

ISBN-13: 9780813108681

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul Salstrom

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 1/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Streck is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa.<div><b>Paul Salstrom</b> holds a Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University and teaches history at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana. An authority on the early rural history of Appalachia, he is the author of Appalachia's Path to Dependency (1994).</div>

Tables and Figure
Preface
Introduction: The Issue
Early Settlement and Self-Sufficiency, 1730-1860
Accelerated Agricultural Decline and Adverse Federal Policy, 1860-1880
Rural Appalachia's Subsistence-Barter-and-Borrow Systems
Labor-intensive Mining and the Subsistence Reproduction of Labor Power, 1880-1930
The New Deal and Appalachia's Industry
The New Deal and Appalachia's Agriculture
The Welfare of Rural Appalachia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index