Ramp Hollow
Subtitle: the ordeal of Appalachia
By: Steven Stoll
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780809095056
Subjects: Mountain people; Economic conditions; Farmers; Social conditions; History; Land tenure
Description: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary ancestors: from Daniel Boone to Hill-Billy; title: Provision grounds: on capitalism and the Atlantic peasantry; title: The Rye Rebellion: why Alexander Hamilton invaded the mountains; title: Mountaineers are always free: on losing land and livelihood; title: Interlude: Agrarian twilight: the art of dispossession; title: The captured garden: subsistence under industrial capitalism; title: Negotiated settlements: the fate of the commons and the commoners.