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Uneven Ground
Ronald D. Eller
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Description for Uneven Ground
Paperback. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; JFFA; JPQB; KCM; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sought to "uplift" the mountain people through education and industrialization. Ronald ... Read more
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sought to "uplift" the mountain people through education and industrialization. Ronald ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813142463
SKU
V9780813142463
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About Ronald D. Eller
Ronald D Eller is former director of the Appalachian Center and professor of history at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880--1930.
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