Beyond the Mountains
Subtitle: Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Nov 15, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780820344874
Description: "Beyond the Mountains explore the ways in which Appalachia so often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region served alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, a region of backward agriculture, a bastion of yeoman farmers, and a place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse"--
Notes: Source title: Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)