Author: Mary Verhoeff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Kentucky Mountains, Transportation and Commerce, 1750 to 1911
Author: Mary Verhoeff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Kentucky Mountains, Transportation and Commerce, 1750 to 1911
Author: Mary Verhoeff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
Author: Ronald D. Eller
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870493416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870493416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.
KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS, TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE, 1750 TO 1911,
Author: MARY. VERHOEFF
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033612439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033612439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley
Author: George D. Torok
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332829
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332829
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.
Where There Are Mountains
Author: Donald Edward Davis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
The Kentucky Mountains, Transportation and Commerce, 1750 to 1911
Author: Mary Verhoeff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Grasping at Independence
Author: Robert S. Weise
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"By closely studying the strategic blend of land ownership, subsistence agriculture, and commerce, Weise reveals how white male farmers in Floyd County attempted to achieve and preserve patriarchal authority and independence - and how this household localism laid the foundation for the region's development during the industrial era. By shifting attention from the actions of industrialists to those of local residents, he reconciles contradictory views of antebellum Appalachia and offers a new understanding of the region's history and its people."--Jacket.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"By closely studying the strategic blend of land ownership, subsistence agriculture, and commerce, Weise reveals how white male farmers in Floyd County attempted to achieve and preserve patriarchal authority and independence - and how this household localism laid the foundation for the region's development during the industrial era. By shifting attention from the actions of industrialists to those of local residents, he reconciles contradictory views of antebellum Appalachia and offers a new understanding of the region's history and its people."--Jacket.
The Kentucky Mountains, Transportation and Commerce, 1750 to 1911
Author: Mary Verhoeff
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295734900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295734900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description