United States of Appalachia How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America

Name: United States of Appalachia How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
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ISBN: 9781593761516

ISBN-10: 1593761511

ISBN-13: 9781593761516

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Authors: Jeff Biggers

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The word Appalachia is seldom uttered in the same sentence with the word enlightenment. More likely, images of the film "Deliverance, corncob chomping grannies, or bonafide gun-toting hillbillies come to mind. However, in truth, Appalachia has been a cradle of US freedom, independence, and enlightenment, as well as a region of progressive social history, literature, and music. "The United States of Appalachia" reveals to us how so many of our nation's basic freedoms and founding moments grew out of the Appalachias. From the first declaration of independence to the beginnings of folk music, literature, and poetry, Jeff Biggers illuminates with humor, intelligence, and clarity, the many…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Rank Strangers



The Trail of Words



The First Washington, D.C.



Down from the Mountain



The Emancipators



All the News That's Fit to Print



The Great American Industrial Saga



We Shall Overcome


Epilogue: We Are All Appalachians


Acknowledgments


Bibliographic Notes


Index