Author: Matthew J. Ferrence
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and yet not quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth.
Appalachia North
Author: Matthew J. Ferrence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and yet not quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and yet not quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth.
Appalachia's Path to Dependency
Author: Paul Salstrom
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188393
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he exposes the complex web of factors—regulation of credit, industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal intervention—that has worked against the region. Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of expanding capitalist relations. Covering Appalachia's economic history from early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history. Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188393
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he exposes the complex web of factors—regulation of credit, industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal intervention—that has worked against the region. Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of expanding capitalist relations. Covering Appalachia's economic history from early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history. Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future.
Producer Prices and Price Indexes
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Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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Producer Price Indexes
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Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
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Research in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development ... Serial No. 91-5
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Regional Economic Development Legislation of 1969
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Economic Development
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-5. Considers S. 1072 and related S. 1090, to extend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 and Title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 authorizing Federal funds for Regional Development Commissions.
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-5. Considers S. 1072 and related S. 1090, to extend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 and Title V of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 authorizing Federal funds for Regional Development Commissions.
Appalachian Child Development
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development
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Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
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Publisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
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