Title: Appalachia : social context, past and present /
Authors: Ergood, Bruce.; Kuhre, Bruce E.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Appalachian Region Social conditions.; Appalachian Region Economic conditions.; Appalachian Region Population.
Contents: What is Appalachia? : geographically and sociologically. Why study Appalachia / People's Appalachian Research Collective ; The latest rediscovery of Appalachia / Robert F. Munn ; Romantic Appalachia / Don West ; The Southern Highlands and the Southern Highlander defined / John C. Campbell ; Freedom in the mountains / Don West ; The new Appalachian subregions and their development strategies / from Appalachia ; Toward a definition of Appalachia / Bruce Ergood ; The sociology of Southern Appalachia / David S. Walls and Dwight B. Billings -- Historical background of Appalachia. Who are the Southern Mountaineers? / Cratis D. Williams ; Pioneer routes of travel and early settlements / John C. Campbell ; Appalachia and the idea of America : the problem of the persisting frontier / Henry D. Shapiro -- Demographic characteristics of the region (Jenny's gone away). Population characteristics / from Appalachia : a reference book ; Appalachia's decade of change : a decade of immigration / Jerome Pickard ; Up here and down home : Appalachians in cities / Gary L. Fowler ; The prospects for urban Appalachians / Michael E. Maloney ; Stereotypes of Appalachian migrants / Clyde B. McCoy and Virginia McCoy Watkins -- Appalachian culture : myth or reality?. Appalachia and the concept of culture : a theory of shared misunderstandings / Allen Batteau ; Appalachian values / Loyal Jones ; The passing of provincialism / Thomas R. Ford ; Victim-blaming in Appalachia : cultural theories and the Southern Mountaineer / Stephen L. Fisher ; Appalachians as an urban ethnic group : romanticism, renaissance, or revolution? / Phillip Obermiller