The New South's New Frontier 
Subtitle: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolin (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Contributors: Stephen Wallace Taylor (Editor); John David Smith (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780813021164
Subjects: American history; Economic history; Social History; North Carolina; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Development - Economic Development; United States - State & Local - General; Economic conditions; United States - General
Description: "The New South's New Frontier explores the origins of exploitative development in the Great Smoky Mountains and finds some surprising similarities to developmental patterns in the rest of the South.

Focusing on the economic transformation of the southern Appalachians, Stephen Taylor examines the dynamics of rural versus small-town forces in the western North Carolina mountains, the region sometimes known as the "back of beyond," a name that pays homage to the mythic past of Appalachian isolation."--BOOK JACKET.